Sentence examples for streets lie from inspiring English sources

The streets lie largely empty – little traffic, few buses, just the occasional pedestrian along the way.

Now those streets lie empty and everyone wonders where all the children have gone.

Today, while the famous old Western streets lie fallow (in some cases, they were demolished), the New York lots are among the most heavily used sites.

Beneath the wonderfully detailed and bustling streets lie the catacombs of a mysterious underground organisation, which offer a serious test of Ezio's parkour skills, while a wealth of other distractions extends an already healthy runtime.

With well less than half its peak population, and free of anything resembling a hill, the city and its miles and miles of streets lie open and empty, beckoning.

Although not all of this relatively compact metropolis of about 330,000 people holds interest, the old part of the city, which lies at the center, does, and its most picturesque streets lie along the Ljubljanica River, which is latticed with stone bridges and hemmed by weeping willows.

5 p.m. 1) HIDDEN CANALS Few visitors realize that underneath the city's cobblestone streets lies a medieval network of canals originally used for trade and transport.

ON a recent Saturday, a day so cold the streets lay deserted, the peal of a woman's voice shook the frigid air opposite Central Park.

Starting at about 6pm, the grand old cafes and bars in the central grid of streets lay on sumptuous buffets to accompany early-evening drinks... and best of all, they're free (just don't tell your date that).

After the bars had shut, after the clubs had closed, when the last revellers had straggled home and the streets lay empty and black, then I would go driving.

It certainly was applied to the great herringbone of dormitory streets lain down in London by the spec' builders of the 19th century – and I daresay also to the construction of the Roman city walls as well.