Sentence examples for materials lay from inspiring English sources

All the building materials lay at hand, perpetually recycled, costing nothing but effort.

But engineers and government officials understood that there was value in being much more specific and comprehensive about what materials lay in the wreckage.

The airstrip was complete, but not many buildings were up yet, and construction materials lay in piles alongside freshly bulldozed roads.

For example, as long as there are, in the community of speakers, experts who know how to tell gold from other materials, lay speakers can successfully use the term gold to refer to that substance even though they lack the knowledge in question.

The energy absorbing materials lay between the bolt-mesh-cable support and O-type roof support.

Two prior generations of sewing materials lay in a basket, and baking utensils were in the cupboards.

Oh, and please tweet me @academiaobscura if you have any spare superhydrophobic materials lying around.

He's currently on his second one, made from materials lying around the farm.

Hesse wandered about the desolate, abandoned warehousing and got excited by some of the commercial materials lying around.

The practical value of luminescent materials lies in their capacity to transform invisible forms of energy into visible light.

Of the five designers who agreed to participate, most wanted special dispensations, like the right to treat leftover materials lying around their offices as free supplies.