Sentence examples for were lain from inspiring English sources

Priests muttered the final prayers as the bodies were lain on pyres of sandalwood.

Remarkably, play was resumed after half an hour and the bodies of those who had died were lain along the touchline and covered in coats.

Limestone deposition and volcanic sediments waned before the end of the Pliocene, and only thin accumulations of littoral sands, peats, dune sand, and marine terrace gravels, were lain down after the islands' uplift in the latest Pliocene.

Roughly 3.2m of them were lain over the original track's crushed limestone and tar surface, earning the world's first speedway the nickname the Brickyard.

A host of dead bodies were lain everywhere between the blocks; nobody cleaned them up.

They were lying.

"They were lying to us.

But the confirmations were lies.

"Other people were lying down.

Those statements were lies.

"People were lying everywhere.