Sentence examples for wind lay from inspiring English sources

The wind lay down, and the afternoon light fell in golden shafts through the spruce forest.

The packed lodge-poles were shivery and wretched, as you might expect for trees native to California; many, torn from the thin soil by the wind, lay propped against neighbours, allowing sunlight to conjure patches of vibrant moss from dead ground.

If there were leaves on the trees, they would show where the wind lies, turning slightly in the way I might quote a poet to describe.

The magnetopause, where the pressure of the magnetosphere counterbalances the solar wind, lies at a distance of 23 26.5 times the radius of Neptune.

Her skull was crushed, and a fallen street light, blown down by the ninety-five-mile-an-hour winds, lay beside her.

Subtropical jet stream, a belt of strong upper-level winds lying above regions of subtropical high pressure.

A man was found with a fatal gunshot wound lying on the ground next to a truck in Kansas City, Mo., Saturday morning.

The second zone, that of the trade winds, lies between 10° and 30° S. There, steady southeasterly trade winds prevail throughout the year and are strongest between June and September.

Air conditioners and bits of panelling – apparently dislodged by high winds – lie on the ground, while the once gleaming chalet-like apartments for athletes look more like a dilapidated council estate than the manicured compound they once were.

Westerly monsoon winds lie in its equatorward portion while easterly trade winds exist poleward of the trough.

Within the Beaufort scale, gale-force winds lie between and with preceding adjectives such as moderate, fresh, strong, and whole used to differentiate the wind's strength within the gale category.