Sentence examples for young lay from inspiring English sources

The Borinage region around Mons was one of the most important industrial areas of Europe when the young lay preacher arrived in December 1878.

The police found them, he said, shot into the basement, stole jewelry from the women and marched the men to a spot where perhaps 10 other Albanian men, most of them young, lay on their stomachs.

The impassioned young lay preacher felt compelled to live like local people, dressing in rags and sleeping on straw in a small and squalid hut at the back of the local baker's, where he was heard sobbing at night.

His 1964 play "Tiny Alice," for instance — the labored saga of a sexually repressed and religiously obsessive young lay brother who is prostituted by the Church to a mysterious rich woman and ultimately martyred — was derided as pompous and baffling to such a degree that Albee felt obliged to hold a press conference to try to explain it.

I saw a blonde girl who looked very young lying beyond him.

The body, looking remarkably young, lies on a white satin sheet, medals pinned smartly to the chest, toes pointing upward in their black shoes.

Hippopotamid young lie at the precocial end of the birth spectrum [27], [28], and it is reasonable to infer that precociality was primitive for whales and their closest artiodactyl ancestors.

In a vitrine, a leather-bound sketchbook of Gerard ter Borch the younger lay open to a black-chalk drawing of a tangled patch of brush on a hillside.

Most of the younger lay disciples are relatives of regular, older attendees.

These eight young women played their age, or younger, lying with their heads together and chatting.

This seismic stratigraphy is characterized by five seismic units (5 to 1, from oldest to youngest) lying above an irregular acoustic basement defined by a highly fractured system of horsts and grabens.