Sentence examples for lie for hours from inspiring English sources

We'd lie for hours on a rug on her studio floor, fucking and listening to music.

Occasionally, he'd forget to remove his nicotine patch before bed and would lie for hours suffering a train of nightmares.

No political ideology guided him, though he might lie for hours at night thinking, or read for most of the day.

Not only do informal traders generally not see the patient, they are untrained, their goods lie for hours in 30C temperatures, and there is no guarantee that the tablets on sale contain the active ingredients printed on the packaging.

When a Madrid specialist told the Spanish teenager in 2004 that he had a deformed tarsal scaphoid bone on the bridge of his left foot and that he might never play again, he was shattered to the point of breakdown, according to his autobiography: "I'd lie for hours on the end on the sofa staring into space, or sit in the bathroom or on the stairs, weeping.

I'll just lie for hours watching Battlestar Galactica lacking the ambition to do anything, even shower or feed myself.

There I lay for hours at a time, reading.

I took walks alone through the surrounding páramo, the bushy, blond grassland carpeting the volcano's flanks, past grazing alpacas, and lay for hours on my back.

Their 7-day-old baby boy, who was born slightly underweight and suffering from infection, had just died, after lying for hours on a cold cot.

On Thursday, a settlers' hike provoked a gun battle, during which wounded settlers lay for hours on a steep hillside waiting to be evacuated.

Even orphan life has a tint of the fable: lying for hours in the meadow and stealing peaches from the kitchen; and the army's march comes across as a pleasant stroll.