Sentence examples for material lay from inspiring English sources

A mass of material lay strewn about, looking somewhat less grandiose than the term antiquities implies.

A factory producing war material lay outside the town and was untouched.

I grew up in the West surrounded by an unfinished landscape: piles of material lay waiting, buildings half finished and forgotten.

Beyond it, some sheltered beech trees retained a pale selection of leaves from the past summer, while the bulk of fallen material lay as a damp, fermenting mulch on the soil below.

But it quickly became clear that the most interesting material lay not in whether her interviewees had ever met Morrissey (a few had), but in the tragedies and triumphs of their own lives.

When a transparent material lay underneath the GST film, spots with a crystalline order absorbed more light than did spots with an amorphous structure.  .

Perhaps the richest deposit of historical material lies in the audiovisual collection.

Much of the best and most profoundly representative material lies elsewhere.

Instead, officials are placing their faith in the law of gravity, assuming only that the highly hazardous material lies somewhere deep inside the reactor basements.

In the second space, "Molting," a series of paper-thin sheets of a silvery material, lies uneasily on the floor, ragged of edge and susceptible to every breeze.

But in any case, it is difficult to fathom where the appeal of such overtly phony material lies for the likes of the many established professionals involved in this production.