Sentence examples for that has lay from inspiring English sources

It's like their whole operation has been one giant snap that has lay dormant for years and years, just waiting for this one perfect moment when we could finally respond to repeated IMs of "Dude!

And that unfettered enthusiasm, retailers say, is breathing life into a business that has lain dormant for years.

The Islington Square project may well reignite a debate that has lain dormant for decades now: postmodernism.

In a network of pipes that Colonel Muammar Qaddafi has called the eighth wonder of the world, Libya is drawing fossil water that has lain undisturbed for centuries.

China's thirst for industry and irrigation has combined with climate change to drain the aquifers, some of which hold fossil water that has lain undisturbed for millennia.

After 27 years, the courts agreed that the burden of guilt that has lain heavy on 96 graves can finally be lifted.

The unification of Italy is the subject of a paperback study guide that has lain untouched on our stairs for a fortnight.

An enormous lake that has lain buried under Antarctic ice for millions of years is home to a new kind of bacterial life, Russian scientists claim.

We appointed a group of independent historians to get to the bottom of a mystery that has lain dormant for a long time".

Antisemitism is a cancer that has lain dormant and silent in the Labour party for decades until its recent sudden re-emergence.

It's not difficult, on the ferry journey along Lake Koman in northern Albania, to imagine you're drifting through a landscape that has lain undisturbed for centuries.