Similar words: play in, laying, playing, slaying, delaying, saying, stay in, paying. Meaning: v. keep or lay aside for future use.
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91. She lay in wait for pain, expecting no rewards from people, and this made her a hopelessly disconcerting friend.
92. He visited his father's body where it lay in the abbey church of Fontrevault.
93. Pye's own estate lay in disputed territory which changed hands at least twice.
94. In her late fifties, she lay in the hospital bed with a rapidly progressing pancreatic cancer.
95. But a family whose lands lay in an area of customary law where partible inheritance was the rule faced considerable problems.
96. The only consolation for the Alsops lay in the fact that just about everyone had underestimated Harry Truman in 1948.
97. The advantage lay in their using less oxygen, being less tired and being able to carry more samples and equipment about.
98. A better chance of locating the life-prolonging elixir lay in the opposite direction, to the east.
99. A third disability lay in her constitution: Sparta had no satisfactory apparatus for decision-making and the formulation of strategy.
100. A further piece of veracity lay in the fact that Imelda could not embrace the concept of life without a husband.
101. His only major mistake lay in the way he responded to the demand for international films.
102. Gloucester's major acquisitions in the reshuffle of 1471 lay in the north.
103. The success of Reuter's agency lay in its objectivity, speed, and even-handed treatment of clients.
104. To either side great chunks of masonry lay in the tall grasses, pieces of fallen statuary among them.
105. People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past. Nicholas Sparks
106. When she was a young woman, she could hear distant laughter down long corridors[sentencedict.com], as she lay in her bed.
107. Bissett's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device.
108. The prize for the innocent spouse lay in benefits such as child custody and financial support.
109. Later, as they lay in bed listening to the rain, John wondered how their new life together would ever work.
110. He lay in a sort of mental haze until a feeling of restriction just below his buttocks penetrated his still slumbering state.
111. I lay in bed and permitted the bedbugs to bite me.Sentencedict.com
112. The error lay in a very simple but quite reasonable assumption which everyone made.
113. Even the cardinals' corporate powers lay in the future in 1215.
114. The puzzle lay in his certainty that his feeling for her found an echo in her own feelings.
115. In the Lymington River, Tomm Bull-Dwyer's six young executives lay in their berths trying to remember some nautical words.
116. We went down into the crypt where the wooden hand of Capitaine Danjou lay in a glass case.
117. The betel nut lay in slices on a white dish.
118. They lay in the bottom of the bag, too discouraged even to talk.
119. There were pitched battles, so they lay in wait for you.
120. Why not lay in the line of tempera, holding the brush against a straight edge, such as a ruler.
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