Sentence examples for once lay from inspiring English sources
Where once lay terrors, there are now tourists.
I once lay with a woman on a bale of hay.
She once lay in bed and "searched my body for your fingerprints," she tells him.
Northup and his peers however have long since grown a callus where those sensitivities once lay.
WH Hudson once lay for five hours to listen to marsh warblers singing.
They include a study of corsets, the sensual objects that once lay hidden beneath a sober surface.
Where he once lay, fighting for his life, he now stood, surveying the diamond, the bleachers, the packed earth.
The Calabrian peninsula of southern Italy once lay against Sardinia, but its southward drift opened the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Of course in New York City you can stand on lots of spots where dead people once lay.
Copenhagen's Kingdom hospital, explains an introductory voiceover, is built on ancient marshland "where the bleaching ponds once lay".
Matteo Manassero could once lay claim to a Masters record; that of being its youngest ever competitor.
