Sentence examples for mask lay from inspiring English sources

But behind the thick glasses and mandarin mask lay a haunted figure, a fearful man who visited indignities upon himself and those around him.

A plain wooden mask lies beside the pot.

The stirring image shows a shattered bat mask lying on the ground with a triumphant-seeming Bane wandering away in the background.

We walked back, past the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun — KV62 — where his mummy, now separated from its golden funeral mask, lies unadorned in a clear, climate-controlled box, a sheet pulled up to its neck.

Rego's paintings are often dotted with suggestive, sometimes disturbing objects, and this work is no exception: aside from the sitter, there is a mask lying on the ground at the right of the picture (as in Hare the dramatist), a sheep carrying a shepherd's crook, and a crow.

And in one of Ligotti's best-known stories, "The Last Feast of Harlequin", an academic researching the anthropological significance of New England clown festivals finds that behind every mask lies the same truth – the endlessly hungry face of a worm that devours all bodies democratically and indiscriminately.

Grey hairs may have added a little age to the one-time "baby-faced assassin" of Old Trafford, but behind the 40-year-old's boyish mask lies a street wisdom that will serve him well in south Wales.

Put on your oxygen mask, lie back and get a massage.

Can they mask lying better than the typical person because they're delusional?

"I just had this mask lying around at home and decided one day I'd take it on the truck," he told 3News.co.nz.

In Tibet Chinaa), sacred dramas are performed by masked lay actors.