Sentence examples for lay wide from inspiring English sources

But he lay wide awake, overcome by an urge to get up and move about.

On the day I arrived, Bab al Aziziya, the dictator's high-walled stronghold, lay wide open, with Libyan families strolling through and gazing wonderingly at the ruins.

During the renovation of the upper story, the Whittens happily discovered that under the aging linoleum lay wide planks of Romanian pine in excellent condition.

I lay wide-eyed in bed, panicked, just waiting for that infernal cat to saunter in.

Through the last pass and down a long, steep snow field lie wide stretches of green.

"As Homer's snoring shakes the house, Marge lies wide awake next to him.

I have lost countless nights of sleep to lying wide awake thinking about work.

The whole of the mind must lie wide open … There must be freedom and there must be peace.

At once funny, acerbic, surreal and almost intolerably sad, the story operates on an array of levels and lies wide open to interpretation.

"The world, – this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around," Emerson writes, in a breathtaking assertion of the hegemony of the self.

In the north lie wide areas of worn-down ancient rocks, stripped of soil by the glaciers but compensated in some measure by the coastal plains created by uplift.