Sentence examples for things lying around from inspiring English sources

We don't like having these things lying around".

Do you have lots of pink things lying around?

Little things lying around also give the impression of a cluttered environment.

Things lying around you might step on".

Harley Spiller has a few things lying around his one-bedroom apartment on the Upper East Side, among them 8,000 decals with graffiti, 120 unusual neckties, hundreds of magnets, 500 marbles, 150 handbills for fortune tellers, 500 packs of chewing gum, 46 yarmulkes and 6,000 keys.

The New Yorker, December 17 , 1949P. 19 A nine-year-old boy has just won his first literary prize for a composition on the subject of "Manners" that he submitted in a school essay contest: "I have good manners, I say good night and good morning and hello and goodbuy, and when I see dead things lying around the house I bury them".

'That's a rain cape from Papua New Guinea,' says Clark, matter of factly, as if it is perfectly normal to have such a thing lying around at home.

"This is also a place where you find things just lying around in plain sight," Mr. Silver said.

What's more, with only 300 square feet, "things were basically lying around," Mr. Panlasigui said.

We're not talking about some mom-and-pop operation here, run by people who decided that it would be fun to put up a Web page and sell things they had lying around in the garage.

Here, I've used things one might find lying around already, such as sprouts and Brazil nuts.