Sentence examples for the very lay from inspiring English sources

The cathedral and its Wonder, its cloister, provide the architectural and visual template for the very lay of the European land — whether the the Paris streets or the Jardin du Luxembourg, where Affleck, Kurylenko, and Tatiana wander.

So General Kvashnin counter-attacked, earlier this month, by suggesting the very opposite: lay off more than half the rocket forces' 240,000 members, and divvy up the remainder, and the warheads, between the three main services.

At the very least, lay claim to it by writing your name (phone number is good, too, in case you misplace it) in it or on it.

Greed served him well up to a point - fashioning a manufacturing giant from the very sand that lay beneath his family farm.

This is also true of the very oldest lie detector, the polygraph, invented over 100 years ago.

The major news and talk shows fact-checked the presidential debate, but Trevor Noah beat everyone to the punch by pinpointing the very first lie.

Lying in itself demonstrates an absence of principles, but lying about possessing the very principles that prevent lying is an even worse lie.

For diatomic molecules the rotational constants for all but the very lightest ones lie in the range of 1 200 gigahertz (GHz).

By getting more good-hearted people to stand for office in the very system that lies at the source of the trouble.

But as unsettling as that last scene was, it did serve an important function, reminding us of the very serious issues lying beneath all the soapiness on "Scandal".

The constant wave of homophobia expressed all around me at school sent me the very direct message: Lie low, very, very low... Never let them suspect you are one..