Sentence examples for lays by from inspiring English sources

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lays by

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Third person singular of lay by

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The only other time such a thing has happened was years ago, when four friends sent me "Play It as It Lays," by Joan Didion.

There are six extant Leiche (lyric lays) by Tannhäuser, a few dance songs and love songs (the latter in a parodistic vein), and a group of Sprüche (gnomic poems).

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion.

Play It As It Lays, by Joan Didion It's about a woman, "rigid with self-pity," who finds herself at "the quintessential intersection of nothing".

How about F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Last Tycoon" looking over the Hollywood sign, or Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress" on Crenshaw Boulevard, or "Play It As It Lays" by Joan Didion, perched someplace where readers can watch the freeway traffic roll by?

Both attitudes are in evident in his "Howl" in which women figure principally as shrews and as sex objects who are seduced and taken to bed, or the backseat of a car for "innumerable lays" by a man identified by the initials "N.C".

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The lay-by was a couple of hundred yards long.

Make sure that we both remained in the lay-by.

Right now, Haye is idling in a lay-by.

We reached the point where the lay-by joined the road.

I suddenly understood why we were here in this lay-by.

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