Sentence examples for lying spread from inspiring English sources

Television footage showed one man lying spread out on the ground, holding out his arms, surrounded by police.

He was now lying spread-eagled across the trunk of the speeding vehicle, but he managed to raise his head and look down into the rear seat.

If the final film doesn't culminate in a 28-minute shot of her lying spread-eagled on the marital bed tearfully rubbing the leathery, disintegrating corpse of a 200-year-old bat against her marital sector, the entire saga has been a cop-out and a lie.

Then there was the case of a Denver Broncos player going down and lying spread-eagled on the turf after making a tackle.

Through the wide windows, midtown Manhattan lies spread out beneath him like a lumpy quilt.

It lay spread out on the floor with a hand-written sign on it: "Do not walk on the tapestry".

"The whole world around us lay spread out like a giant relief map," he told one interviewer.

Hillary, describing the view from the summit: "The whole world around us lay spread out like a giant relief map".

It came up over a distant mountain range and illuminated in rosy pastels the whole of the island, which lay spread out beneath us.

Anything that emerged from the night's catch — squirrelfish or parrot fish, milky-eyed goatfish dead in the ropes, sling-jawed lionfish with their wings twisted — now lies spread in smudged colors across the Frenchman's bed.

The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical.