Sentence examples for lying calmly from inspiring English sources

Fonkwo is lying calmly on his back on the trampoline watching balls rolling over a translucent white screen above him.

I felt a little macho, lying calmly in the tube of terror, wondering why it is that we can take pictures with our phone of piranha sushi in Venezuela and text them to people in Wyoming, but no one can figure out how to stop the ear-splitting soundtrack inside an MRI machine.

When he woke up, he lay calmly on the cage floor, appearing rather dignified considering what he'd just endured.

Once a week, Tatianna Fahie, 7, a second grader, reads as Gretyl lies calmly across her lap.

On Thursday, a technician shaved fur from a spot on his neck, then inserted a delicate needle and plastic tube in his jugular vein as he lay calmly on an examination table.

The participants were instructed to lie calmly in a comfortable chair and keep the eyes open without blinking.

An experiment by the National Institute of Health in the US found that a group of men following a schedule that echoed that of wintertime - 10 hours of light and 14 hours of darkness - would also naturally begin to sleep in two approximately four-hour stretches, waking in between for one to three hours and simply lying there calmly before sleeping again.

What if there was a way to conquer our fears that involved nothing more taxing than lying down calmly to sleep at night?

My mother and I stood and watched as he put shaving cream on Birju's cheeks … Birju lay there calmly as my father lathered him.

Dogs lie down calmly instead of barking when visitors come to the door.

They began sleeping in two distinct, roughly four-hour stretches, with one to three hours of somnolence — just calmly lying there — in between.