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Example Sentences
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So the film set pub lay for a year-and-a-half in a yard on Achill Island - and when Luke offered to buy it from his brother-in-law, he was told he could have it for nothing.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2023
As Morantz lay for six days in a hospital bed recovering from the rattlesnake bite, police and reporters began to put the pieces together.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022
The outpouring of sadness triggered by Elizabeth's death has already drawn large crowds in Scotland, where she lay for 24 hours in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh.
From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2022
Brown lay for two weeks in the morgue before pathologists determined they couldn’t get to his case fast enough.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2022
My feet slipped on the snow-covered ice, but I made it across and I lay for a moment in a grateful, exhausted pile.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
