Sentence examples for that just lay from inspiring English sources

Television columnist Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger wrote that the episode was a "pretty lifeless outing", reasoning it had the "usual laughs in the margin" but overall "there were a lot of long, flat, deadly stretches, and entire subplots like Jenna with her stalker that just lay there".

While things that just lie there, like this beach, are loaded with jeopardy".

So even if it's just a note ("Hope this takes you to your favorite destination!"), you've moved beyond the realm of a card that just lies there.

"And whereas every church used to have its own priest, now you have a lot of parishes that just have lay administrators and no priest at all.

"The public imagines that districts just lay off teachers starting at the bottom of a long seniority list," Mr. Ramanathan said.

Something about the fiction I was writing required that you just lay your insides out hot and smoking on the table.

But she didn't say any of that; she just lay silently, emanating a black, hateful aura, until finally Robert trailed off.

(P5, Group 2) "I started to worry when my ex-partner and I got together and the pain during and after sex just got that bad that I would just lay in a fetal position for hours afterwards.

Carlos replied, "Because it was so many individuals that were in positions of power that chose to just lay back".

"It would bring closure knowing that we are recognized and that we can just lay it to rest".

But I am not a thing that is just lying around somewhere, like a pen, or a toaster, or a housewife.