Sentence examples for place lay from inspiring English sources

Exact(7)

Exactly a week later, the place lay in ruins.

On the narrow one-way street where the explosion took place lay the charred, mangled remains of the car.

The appeal of the place lay, to some extent, in its opposition to centralized power: Vermont rejected parts of the New Deal, and it is one of a handful of states where local citizens conduct government business in town meetings.

Before I wrote about her, I had assumed that the success of the Spotted Pig was due, perhaps, to the "gastropub" concept — that the charm of the place lay in the fact that someone had thought to hang a shingle, unspool some tartan, and ply New Yorkers with blue-cheese burgers and rosemary-flecked shoestring fries, rather than in their execution.

Just to rub it in, we made it a big place lay to boot and had a half-decent bet on Kia Kaha after remembering that AP [McCoy] thought he'd have beaten Herecomesthetruth when falling behind him at Taunton in December.

For decades after his death in the Vietnam War, Allan Altieri's resting place lay bare, with no grave marker.

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His final resting place lies outside Eccles near Manchester.

The Babusar Top, where the killings took place, lies two hours from Astore.

The section of Third Avenue where the accident took place lies beneath the Gowanus Expressway overpass.

The block of Rutgers Street where the accident took place lies near the Manhattan Bridge.

I wanted to know why my son was here, in this desolate place, lying dead in a body bag.

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