Sentence examples for simply lie there from inspiring English sources
Closed parks do not simply lie there, waiting patiently for times to improve or for officials and legislators to behave more prudently.
A rote version of "Cry Me a River," unruffled by the smallest tinge of bitterness and anger, simply lay there, inert.
But it was largely a hipster crowd, not his most enthusiastic clientele, and there were long periods in which he simply lay there, motionless, alone in his carpet.
Fruit desserts were strangely flavorless, especially green apple tart, topped with paper-thin apple slices, which simply lay there, inert, refusing to make a taste impression.
An experiment by the National Institute of Health in the US found that a group of men following a schedule that echoed that of wintertime - 10 hours of light and 14 hours of darkness - would also naturally begin to sleep in two approximately four-hour stretches, waking in between for one to three hours and simply lying there calmly before sleeping again.
It was not, and I found myself simply lying there trying to make sense of the news.
I simply lay there, emotionally entombed, trying not to breathe too hard or feel too much as I waited for sleep to find you and take you deep into the hush of night.
It's grotesque to think about what rape is: a crying, fearful, unresponsive, protesting woman in pain, or one that simply lies there, unconscious, and must be moved like a rag doll to achieve her rapist's ends.
