lay smooth
Example Sentences
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One can say the same thing about Debbie Harry of Blondie, the brassy blonde who lay smooth the path for Madonna and who, like Madonna, cannot actually sing.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2016
Ahead, as far as the eye could see, the black pavement of Fifth Avenue lay smooth and empty between the towers of Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dust in them lay smooth, and the hoof-marks that showed were old and dim.
From Raw Gold A Novel by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
The land-breeze had died down with sunset; the Atlantic lay smooth as a lake below us, and melted, league upon league, without horizon into the grey of night.
From News from the Duchy by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
But the lantern stood longer still upon a salient fragment of the razed east end, while the trowel rang, and the mortar flopped, until all lay smooth and glistening in its light.
From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
