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Example Sentences
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Starmer will arrive with an entourage of industry executives hoping to promote British business through a UK-China CEO Council, a body that has lain dormant for years.
From Barron's
As we returned the dug-up riverbank to its former condition, tamping down the muddy area where the treasure had lain, Mr. Pinkerton and my aunt pondered the next step.
From Literature
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"It's fascinating for me to see how shipwrecks that have lain there and been dived for for years and years still have new things to reveal every time people go and dive them," he said.
From BBC
Someone close to us had died along the shoulder of a highway and had lain unnamed for more than 40 years.
A large portion of the wreck was covered with enormous boulders, which had broken away from the cliffs that lined Antikythera’s shore sometime during the two thousand years the wreck had lain on the seabed.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.