Sentence examples for we lay like from inspiring English sources

We lay like chaste logs, apart and awake.

In silence, below the canopy that a 30-something dad made for his little girl so many years before, we lay like a beach while her sister's grievances barked through the plaster.

The big sell of "sleep learning" is seductive – how lovely it would be to be productive while we lie like lifeless lumps in bed.

We lay there like that for quite a while, me not saying a word lest I break the spell, that magical moment where it wasn't teen vs. mom or daughter tolerating mother: It was me and my girl, cuddling together.

At one point, an old woman cannot recall what a coffin is called and resorts to all kinds of circumlocution; then, in the climax of the poem, Harrison himself says '...I loved my wife/ in that long thing where we lay with day like night': periphrasis charged with significance by the earlier image, and unforgettable.

Apparently we "lay amongst it like it's festival faerie dust, rolling about in cigarette butts and food waste with the joy of pigs in shit".

We lay there for what felt like hours, our bodies melting into our yoga mats.

We can't lie like we used to".

— had washed onto the dunes and lay like giants' toys.

They lay, like the men, in all attitudes.

The short stubble, all frost-white, lay like carpet among the haystacks spaced regularly across it.