Sentence examples for we lay with from inspiring English sources
"We lay with our heads slightly up — like two snakes — staring at each other.
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.
William Maxwell wrote, "In talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw".
In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw".
Then we lie with one another, on pillows stitched from cotton and stuffed with the feathers of a bird.
I am drawing on my child's memory, and as William Maxwell wrote, when it comes to memory, so many conflicting emotions are at stake that we lie with every breath we draw.
The former New Yorker fiction editor William Maxwell wrote that "when talking about the past, we lie with every breath we take", and he did not mean merely the rewriting of personal history that memory always inevitably accomplishes.
We have made torture a national policy, we have besmirched our good name in the eyes of the world, we have been passive accessories in repealing some of our most cherished liberties, we lie with impunity and we accept lies from our rulers as natural and necessary.
For the next two days, we lay wracked with diarrhea and abdominal cramps in our hotel room.
After a delicious – but expensive – supper of local game and fish, we lay in bed with our curtains open.
