Sentence examples for long lain from inspiring English sources

The bedrock of Mr Chávez's support has long lain with non-unionised workers in the vast informal economy.

Rising prices inspired people to bring dealers the dusty papers that had long lain ignored in their cellars.

She also smiles, almost a Mona Lisa smile: reserved, enigmatic, but awakening a kind of memory of something that has long lain dormant - tenderness, perhaps.

More than 14,000 objects have been unearthed at Sardis so far, from the Lydian era and from the later deposits — Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman — under which the city had long lain buried.

So what is left of the Folies Bergère has long lain in the commission's warehouse in Brooklyn, and now Lisi de Bourbon, a commission spokeswoman, says the fragments will be sold as a lot later this month.

Reuniting three childhood friends for the funeral of a fourth, the film is a riveting portrait of young men in shock and in mourning as the tragedy stirs feelings that have long lain dormant.

Saturday starts with a long lie-in.

Douville spotted a log, about eighteen feet long, lying perpendicular to the shoreline.

There was a used condom, ridiculously long, lying on the grass.

Instead, let's celebrate slack jobs, such as those involving long lie-ins and short shifts.

A nice, long lie-down in a dark room, preferably soundproof, would be more like it.