Sentence examples for lie neglected from inspiring English sources

Her remains lie neglected under the mud of the river Roach in Essex.

In the old library, finely detailed maps dating as far back as two centuries lie neglected in a desk drawer.

"What a shame that it should lie neglected or be put to trivial uses when it is the easiest way to improve law and justice decisively and at one stroke," he said.

These amount to 30m policies, some of which have been forgotten about by their owners and lie neglected by the companies that hold them, including "zombie funds" – businesses closed to new customers.

But your talents can lie neglected or frustrated if you don't make use of them intelligently - and craftily.

It stayed there through Louisiana and beyond, while Trollope lay neglected in my lap.

For more than a century, the ruins of the Yuan Ming Yuan lay neglected.

I think there is a huge back catalogue of worthwhile but forgotten plays that lay neglected.

It was as if the ideas associated with the symptoms were quarantined from the consciousness and lay neglected by normal curiosity.

"Is it not a wonder", he asked, "that people do not look around them for the many gastronomic treasures lying neglected at their feet?

When my father was a young boy in India nearly 70 years ago, he began tinkering with a veena, the classical Indian stringed instrument, that he found lying neglected at his home.