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Example sentences for "lying"

Lexicographically close words:
lyfte; lyght; lyghted; lyghtly; lyin; lyinge; lyis; lyke; lyked; lyken
  1. There was no answering gleam of pleasure on Tom Boynton's face; he stared at Ted, stared at the face of the dead man lying at their feet, then dropped upon his knees beside him.

  2. Her behaviour at her trial was very intemperate, lying notoriously, and railing upon the jury and witnesses, etc.

  3. And confesseth that she can go into any place invisible, and yet her Body shall be lying in her Bed.

  4. A wofull lying in was this, the Lord doth know, God keep all honest vertuous wives from feeling of such woe.

  5. The Truth of which is sufficiently attested in the Neighbourhood, he lying now at his Mother's house,' etc.

  6. Thou art a Reprobate and a lying Curre; you were either whelpt in Lapland, or in Finland; where there is none but divells and Sorcerers live.

  7. So Gunga Dall had not been lying after all when he said he saw her ladyship, and she had not lied either in replying that she knew she wasn't there.

  8. You couldn't have left it lying around anywhere?

  9. As if I should leave satin opera coats lying round.

  10. The lady whom the young gent had said was lying dead was alive, "and very much alive, sir!

  11. Over the low-lying porch half covered with ivy was a great landing window, one of those which had been kept religiously closed, but was now wide open, and on the sill of it there appeared the startlingly clear figure of a woman.

  12. Miss Cheyne was lying dead in that room, and this rascal took her clothes and her place.

  13. I could see the figure of Blake in his woman's clothes lying in the chair.

  14. Opening it, he took out a little scrap of gold lace and let her see it lying on his open palm.

  15. So I nipped in and then stumbled upon Lady Margaret, lying in the cellar, and saw it was a chance to get even with Sammy.

  16. For there, lying crumpled up in a lax, horrible heap, lay the figure of a woman!

  17. The weapon was lying by her side when I saw her, and I'll take my oath there was a revolver in his own pocket when I lurched up against him in the lane.

  18. But if ye ken Lord Evandale, bid him look to himsell, for I hear strange words pass atween the sodgers that are lying here, and his name is often mentioned; and the tane o' them has been twice up at Tillietudlem.

  19. We are informed by Captain Crichton, that they had set up in their camp a huge gibbet, or gallows, having many hooks upon it, with a coil of new ropes lying beside it, for the execution of such royalists as they might make prisoners.

  20. They found him reading the Scriptures, with his arms lying beside him, as if ready for any sudden alarm.

  21. They are already discouraged by the thoughts of lying before the fort a week.

  22. Moved by these arguments, it was agreed that the main body of the army should march against Glasgow, and dislodge the soldiers who were lying in that town.

  23. Under other pretences he had beforehand made considerable augmentations to the Dutch navy; and the ships were at that time lying in harbor.

  24. He must have had some reasons, and perhaps not unplausible ones, for this affirmation, of which all his hearers, as they had the accounts lying before them, were at that time competent judges.

  25. The combined fleets set sail towards the coast of Holland, and found the enemy lying at anchor within the sands at Schonvelt.

  26. He was lying on the ground, not too far from a fire, and there were walls.

  27. They were setting a trap along the Tennessee right now, lying in the enemies' own back pasture to do it.

  28. The man lying there had a brush of grayish beard on his chin, a mat of hair which moved up and down as he breathed in heavy, panting gasps.

  29. Then, later he had been lying half in, half out of a creek, sicker than he had ever been in his life.

  30. Drew, Kirby, and Wilkins, with Boyd to ride courier, had already explored the bank and tried to estimate the extent of the wealth lying in the open, across the river.

  31. Bismarck's interest in things was never keenly aroused unless they were worth lying about.

  32. Thou shalt carry that which my Castle bears, whose towers rise so high towards Heaven, that which, lying amidst the beautiful country of Suabia, has given its name to my family.

  33. Even within the transition interval, therefore, pure double salt can be obtained by crystallization, provided the original solution has a composition represented by a point lying between the two lines OE and OF.

  34. The curve ACB is the boundary curve for saturated solutions; solutions lying outside this curve are supersaturated, those lying within the area ACBO, are unsaturated.

  35. At all temperatures and concentrations lying to the right {124} of the curve abcdc'e there can be only one liquid phase; in the field cdc' there are two liquid phases.

  36. The composition of the solution must, therefore, be represented by some point lying on the line OD, the bisectrix of the right angle.

  37. For the most part the solubility curves have been studied only at temperatures lying between 0deg and 100deg, the solid phase in contact with the solution being the anhydrous salt.

  38. If, now, we suppose the double salt to contain the two constituent salts in equimolecular proportions, its saturated solution must be represented by a point lying on the line which bisects the angle AOB; e.

  39. Since during the separation of the double salt the relative amount of magnesium chloride increases, it is most advantageous to {290} commence with a solution the composition of which is represented by a point lying just above the curve EM (cf.

  40. There goes the reveille," replied Biddulph, as the quivering notes of the bugle rose on the air, the morning light just breaking grey over the plain, showing the tents of the little force lying here and there.

  41. The openings of several caves were to be seen, and near one there appeared to have been some fight lately, for blood, evidently quite fresh, was lying about.

  42. The schooner has run into some of the little bays of the coast, and is now doubtless lying within a few miles of us.

  43. All night long they had roamed about him, one apparently wounded lying down under the tree where he lay concealed.

  44. A ship lying to--and what is there strange in that?

  45. Wyzinski's calm face and thin features relaxed into a smile, as the soldier returned the blow by means of a violent kick, and found himself the next moment powerless lying on his back, and a stout rope of palmyra round his legs.

  46. When I saw him, he was lying between the pump and the mainmast with his thigh broken.

  47. Father Guy had brought over a strong body of the Catholic peasantry from Ireland, the cutter which landed them lying in a snug little bay near the farm.

  48. The soaked carpets, the crimson seats drenched with salt-water, and the broken cabin furniture, were the natural results of the few minutes the brig had been lying on her beam ends.

  49. The starlight showed the tiger lying dead, and beside it in a half sitting posture, Ensign Harris, with his rifle across his knees.

  50. Posting Luji at a spot where he judged he might prove useful in case the leopard bolted and the Hottentot did not, Captain Hughes, lying flat on his face, leaned over the edge of the precipitous rock, and looked down on to the ledge.

  51. The body itself lay stretched at full length in one corner, lying on some panther skins.

  52. Captain Hughes was lying on the spars at her feet, while close by Weber and his mate were endeavouring to prick off their position on a chart, which was spread on a barrel.

  53. The populations of two islands may agree, whilst that of a whole archipelago lying between them may differ.

  54. It is the opinion of Rosen that the central province of Kartulinia, of which Tiflis is the capital, is the original seat of the Georgian family; the chief reasons lying in the fact of that part of the area being the most important.

  55. Because the partridge lying dead over there is my partridge.

  56. A little lower the figure of a man with gray hair lay tumbled down the steep green slope, his limbs lying all at random, and his face turned away.

  57. The next moment he laughed; for he saw lying a little way along the path below him the dead bird that the shot had brought down.

  58. The lamp was lit, and he did see it, for St. Paul's Penny was lying on the floor at his feet.

  59. Prince seemed to be paying but little attention; his eye was riveted on an object lying on the path a yard or two from the corpse.

  60. Late home and to bed, they also lying at my house, he intending to go away to-morrow back again to sea.

  61. But this day, after three days' trial in vain, and the hazard of the spoiling of the ship in lying till next spring, besides the disgrace of it, newes is brought that the Loyall London is launched at Deptford.

  62. Up, lying long, being wearied yesterday with long walking.

  63. Thence home, and there find Knipp at dinner with my wife, now very big, and within a fortnight of lying down.

  64. So home and to bed, and this night the first night of my lying without a waistcoat, which I hope I shall very well endure.

  65. She was lying on her back and her wings were caught in the bark of the stump.

  66. They all rushed over to the tree and there was Pinkie Whiskers lying on his back and kicking as hard as he could.

  67. So they ran on a little farther until they came to a hat lying upside down on the ground.

  68. What is the use of having a lot of things lying about that you don't want?

  69. Immediately, everything she asked for was lying before her on the King's throne, and they all sat down and enjoyed such a dinner as only a wymp or a real Queen would know how to appreciate.

  70. Indeed, before he had time to thank her he found himself once more outside the tree, with his crown lying at his feet and his horse standing at his side.

  71. When he awoke, he was lying on the grass under a silver birch tree, and in front of him was a red brick fort with battlements and a drawbridge.

  72. And then, sad as it is to relate, they both forgot all about the Lady Emmelina; and the next minute, she found herself lying face downwards on the floor, while the Prince and Princess hugged each other.

  73. God help the writer who puts pen to paper in fifty years' time, for all that will be left of the language will be a dry shank-bone that has been lying a long while on the dust-heap of empire.

  74. A few years since some large bones, of an uncommon kind, were found in a cave in Virginia, highly preserved by lying in earth abounding with nitre.

  75. Well they knew the dangers that were before them, the privations and fatigues, the scorching heat of the low-lying lands, the bitter snows of the mountains; but in all that crowd of resolute men there was not one who quailed or shrunk.

  76. It was no wonder that Arnaud’s brow was lined with anxious thought, as his glance swept the country lying before the entrance to the pass.

  77. The bands that followed days after saw the bodies lying frozen on the snow, the mothers still pressing their children in their arms.

  78. The place smells rank to heaven of dried fish and cod-liver oil, the combined stench of which articles, with that of decaying refuse lying everywhere, was truly overpowering.

  79. To this aspect is added the multitude of shipping lying along the piers and grouped in the harbor, backed by a view of the open sea.

  80. Marshal Bernadotte), which has remained unchanged and unused since the time of his death, his old campaign cloak of Swedish blue still lying upon the bed.

  81. A small propeller was seen lying in the stream fitted with a forecastle gun, from whence to fire a lance at whales,--a species of big fishing which is profitably pursued here.

  82. Lying on the east side of the Kremlin and adjoining its walls is a section of the city also enclosed within high walls, known as the Chinese City.

  83. Through the large opening one gets a very curious, half-telescopic view of the sea and the many islands lying in range.

  84. Formerly it served as an astronomical observatory; and it is an observatory still, since it affords one of the best and most comprehensive views that can be had of the low-lying capital.

  85. The great contrast between these low-lying verdant islands and those lofty, frowning, jagged, and snow-capped ones which we had so lately encountered in the far North was striking indeed.

  86. A Lapp sleeps wherever fatigue or drunkenness overcomes him, preferring the ground, but often lying on the snow.

  87. Notwithstanding its giddy towers and looming palaces rising above the level of the capital, the want of a little diversity in the grade of the low-lying city is keenly felt.

  88. From Rosedale one can return to the city by boat or by a drive over the pleasant, well-macadamized roads which intersect the country lying between the Baltic and Lake Maelaren.

  89. Reporters for this lying sheet--the Star?

  90. I had risen rapidly, I was young, the future was lying golden before me--and I was engaged.

  91. With Mr. Magee descended the yellow candlelight, and brushing aside the shadows of the hotel office, it revealed a mattress lying on the floor close to the clerk's desk, behind which stood the safe.

  92. I looked about me, and saw in the starlight my blow-pipe, lying on the floor.

  93. And as soon as I found myself lying at full length upon those white and aged bones in the darkness of the grave, I realised that I was lost--that it had been far better for me had I fled into the jungle.

  94. I sprang to my feet--I had been lying on my berth--and looked about me.

  95. He's lying yonder like an old dog-fox in his earth, and we'll send a terrier in to fetch him out.

  96. We came upon one, lying half coiled upon the bank of a woodland pool, and I am ready to swear that he was longer than a cricket-pitch, and of a thickness almost equal to my own waist.

  97. Of other such lamps, similar in all respects, I counted five, lying upon the stone flooring, each surrounded by its own pool of oil.

  98. They are in ill health, and one or two should be lying up in a sick berth, instead of being sworn at left and right for not moving quicker.

  99. And when I sighed aloud at the wonder of it all, a fourth man whom I had not noticed, lying upon the floor at the other end of the room, struggled upon an elbow and cried out to me, and afterwards pointed a finger down his throat.

  100. The money was placed on a table in the order given, the half-sovereign being under the other coins and lying on the face of the table.

  101. Perhaps it was some young man who, fearing the excess of his own tenderness, found himself always lying at the edge of the bed and in danger of tumbling off, or so near to a charming wife that he disturbed her slumber.

  102. The only person I know of in the world who sleeps with a noble air is Agamemnon, whom Guerin has represented lying on his bed at the moment when Clytemnestra, urged by Egisthus, advances to slay him.

  103. Thou hast a pretty, forward, lying face, And may'st in time expect preferment.

  104. He was lying face downward on its pavement, when a man with a cudgel ordered him to rise.

  105. He meant to say he had been lying for the pure fun of it.

  106. The dark, recumbent forms of six or eight others could be seen, enveloped in their blankets, lying about a few red coals.

  107. He will never know that yesterday, as I stood by his side, I longed to be lying at the bottom of the dark, sunless pool.

  108. Polly clapped her hands with girlish glee, as the train slowly steamed into Tebay Junction, the gray old station lying snugly among the green Westmorland hills.

  109. Chrissy liked lying in that cool room, arranging Aunt Milly's work-box, or watching her long white fingers as they moved so swiftly.

  110. Mildred found her afterwards lying exhausted but with a smile on her face.

  111. I shouldn't wonder if you have to carry me on your back, Dick, or leave me lying by the roadside, if that faintness comes on again.

  112. The master of Kirkleatham had been lying in his grave for weeks, but his faithful daughter still refused to be comforted.

  113. I could not help it,' she returned, drying her eyes, 'to see him lying there looking so ill.

  114. Ethel saw a broken lily lying amongst them on the altar afterwards.

  115. The same thought was lying heavy on my conscience.


  116. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lying back; lying between; lying dead; lying down; lying flat; lying spirit; lying tongue