Sentence examples for lie thick from inspiring English sources

They lie thick all around you.

Discarded election fliers lie thick in the mosque's courtyard as it empties.

Here, theories lie thick upon the ground.

The author started writing this debut novel in 2003, before the 7/7 bombings, so parts had to be rewritten and the focus changed from "What if this happened?" to "What if it happened again?" The clichés lie thick on the ground and the writing is often uncomfortably awkward, but it's a jolly good thriller none the less.

Visibility had worsened, and smoke lay thick over the seas.

Nevertheless, he wrote, the plaque lay "thick as if  'twere batter".

Snow is lying thick on the car roofs and on the roofs of the terraced houses.

A heavy autumnal mist was still lying thick in the valley when Jeff left his home for school.

IN THE winter of 1946-47, when ice and snow lay thick across Europe, John Harvey-Jones found himself in charge of bands of Germans and Russians dismantling Wilhelmshaven docks.

Beyond the pile, the pines were sparse, their fallen needles lying thick on soil furrowed by the frost heaves of winters past.

Then John Kilgore, a theater sound designer who lives next door to the building, saw Con Edison workers digging up the street to lay thick power lines.