Sentence examples for thing lies from inspiring English sources

During prolonged periods when "The Great Good Thing" lies closed on a shelf, the characters bide their time until the next reading.

In the book as in life, the significance of a thing lies not in the thing itself, and not even in our immediate experience of the thing, but in our memories of it and in all we come to associate with it.

A big chunk of the responsibility for the whole thing lies with me for being naive enough to sign their stock agreement without having a lawyer look at it.

Because the actual bigger body of the whole thing lies with the counselling, and that's the social worker's role.

(Focus group 1) Because the actual bigger body of the whole thing lies with the counselling, and that's the social worker's role.

Not the thing lying closest to the box when you're packing it.

I would have known — or so people say — that the thing lying there on the slab wasn't my father.

But the brilliance of the thing lay in its attempt to reduce the business of hackery to an exact formula.

I would have known or so people say that the thing lying there on the slab wasn't my father.

While his mother focuses on his sister, K.C. is doing his own thing — lying on the carpet crashing cars into Spider-Man and Batman action figures.

Though Mr. Gerhard said the firm did not "intend to let this thing lie," Mr. Lat says he did not receive a cease-and-desist letter.