Sentence examples for papers lying around from inspiring English sources

"I don't want my papers lying around," he said.

But it is just as likely that somebody left some papers lying around.

If you see papers lying around in your desk then put them where they belong or in the trash.

Post-it notes are yellow because there happened to be some yellow paper lying around in the 3M lab in 1977.

(Pick up a copy of The Ithaca Times -- a free weekly entertainment paper lying around in delis and coffeehouses -- to see who's playing where.) The only troubles are the rain, which is frequent, and the winter, which is long and cold.

So you'll rarely find a piece of paper lying around in his room.

Have some colored, pretty paper lying around?

The garage, by contrast, feels far more evocative of the man behind the myth: discarded, scrunched-up papers lie around the place, and pools of fountain pen ink, as if he had just popped out for a quick breath of sea air.

If you can get the paper in the same size that your art will be in, that's great, but if not (ie, if you're using a huge canvas and just don't have that extra roll of art paper lying around), then just sketch it to scale and don't worry.

Perhaps it's a throwback from the years I spent as a teacher, when I didn't have much space in which to work, and papers left lying around invariably just got lost.

"Any paper left lying around was swept up," he said.