Sentence examples for which we lay from inspiring English sources

Then there were the two snowstorms, and the holy lakes covered with sheets of ice, and the nights in which we lay shivering inside the flimsy cloth walls of our tents.

Our vessel ran shuddering onto the rocks, a wave of wetness ran through us, the air was rent with screams and I became aware that the bank on which we lay drenched and grounded was journey's end, love's end, the very sea-mark of our utmost sail.

(150 mm) wafers onto which we lay out a single 9.75 cm×9.75 cm large-area sensor and several 1 cm×1 cminiaturere sensors with various n-strip isolation structures.

The true, authoritative norms are those which prevail in nature, as shown by the behavior of non-human animals such as beasts of prey; those who act in accordance with these norms 'do these things in accordance with the nature of justice and … the law of nature, but perhaps not in accordance with this one which we lay down' (Plato, Gorgias, 483e).

"We get something like a piece paper, a leaf or polythene which we lay on the ground for the children to defecate then we take and throw in the latrines.

Strangely enough, despite the frequency with which we lie, we are pretty bad at it.

While conceding that, in most cases, "comity and respect for federalism compel us to defer to the decisions of state courts on issues of state law," the concurrence relies on some combination of Article II, Section 1, and 3 U. S. C. Section 5 to justify the majority's conclusion that this case is one of the few in which we may lay that fundamental principle aside.

On this model, in seeking to define anything, we work back up the appropriate classificatory hierarchy to find the higher (i.e., more basic or more general) 'Forms', by means of which we can lay down the definition.

Taking water for granted is something fairly new, which we can lay at the feet of the classical Greeks, who were maestros of water management, and the Romans, who used aqueducts to fill public baths and to flush nearby communal toilets, the Starbucks of the day where people conducted a great deal of their (non-personal hygiene) business.

At the start of summer, students attend a seminar during which we carefully lay out expectations and define professionalism.

Envisioning Sorcerer's Apprentice scenarios, he predicted, "The future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves".