Sentence examples for lay which from inspiring English sources

According to Tolkien, "Beowulf" was not an epic or a heroic lay, which might need narrative thrust.

Scardino, who was chief executive of Financial Times and Penguin owner Pearson for 16 years until the end of 2012, said she thought business leaders were intelligent enough to know where their best interests lay, which was in closer European integration – even though her faith in the British business community generally was "at a nadir".

Features that result from the automatic feature-splitting process but make no sense were removed for example, in the turtle example, "does lay" (which, while literally true, is not a distinct component action of the original feature "does lay eggs").

Or lie (which seems like a bad start) and pretend that I don't?

The second level of misdemeanour is lying, which is the category Lochte falls into.

("The choice is that you lie, which we don't like to do," Nick Davies, the communications director, told the New York Times).

THARP -- There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

But they also know where my true heart lies, which is with their work and the agency.

Acting is based on lying, a noble type of lying, which is why I decided to tell the truth; it's my chief luxury".

I can say nothing, which is cowardly, I can lie, which is immoral, or I can tell the truth, which will upset people".

What it was "about" was lying, which in turn meant that it was "about" something more important than sex, i.e., "character".