Sentence examples for of a lay from inspiring English sources

First, the practice of a lay ministry.

Vickers was the son of a lay minister and started singing in church.

More unusual still, the procedure is being done in public, in front of a lay jury.

I reject the criticisms of a lay and professional judiciary that has risen to an unprecedented challenge superbly.

Lee's personal letters during and after the war provide some documentation about his health condition, albeit through the eyes of a lay person.

The revolution Dante described was nothing less than the twilight of the predominantly clerical Latin culture and the emergence of a lay, vernacular urban literacy.

The remains of a fire lay nearby.

Better a lying sack of shit.

No word of a lie.

This is the story of the anatomy of a lie.

Is that the only definition of a lie?