lay before
Example Sentences
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In the hotel room, Spark’s pens and papers lay before her, but on that particular morning she decided to use them for something different.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Ghassan Daghlas, the governor of the Nablus region, which includes Tell, attended a funerary prayer at the Nabuls hospital where the bodies lay before the burial, his office said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
The quintet could never have imagined what lay before them.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
“O hours of childhood, / when behind each shape more that the past lay hidden, / when that which lay before us was not the future,” Rilke muses.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
A pool of perfectly still water, so full that the water was almost exactly level with the ground, lay before him.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
