Sentence examples for while they lay from inspiring English sources

Some 22 Sirte residents who joined the local militia were murdered by Isis while they lay wounded in hospital, the national LANA news agency reported.

The woman said Mr. Zimmerman had groped her while they lay under a blanket as they watched television with a group of other children.

The officers kicked one man in the head and hit another in the head with an object while they lay on the ground.

But many witnesses described how the gunmen changed pace, and began looking for survivors to pick out and shoot while they lay on the floor.

Some were travelling abroad for the first time in church groups from rural towns in Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces.Survivors recounted how they sang hymns and prayed together while they lay under the rubble, waiting to be rescued, sometimes for days.

"Among the same group, six detainees received a series of lashes, which were administered while they lay down on their stomachs," said Mr. Genser, with the American nonprofit group, Freedom Now, which seeks the release of political prisoners.

Imagining that the antidote to tabloid blood lust is cutting a vein while they lie in wait downwind takes the principle too far.

It is criminality pure and simple and there is absolutely no excuse for it… We've seen people robbing others while they lie injured and bleeding in the street".

We have seen houses, offices and shops raided and torched, police officers assaulted and fire crews attacked as they try to put out fires, people robbing others while they lie injured and bleeding in the street, and even three innocent people being deliberately run over and killed in Birmingham.

While they lie in wait for the Dictator to arrive, they recount actual crimes of the regime, such as the murder of the Mirabal sisters.

Off northern Brazil, juveniles seek out cleaning stations occupied by yellownose gobies (Elacatinus randalli), which clean the sharks of parasites while they lie still on the bottom.