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
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 E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Her straight, straw-colored hair lay smooth about her delicate face, and in her eyes was the strained look of one who seeks but is destined never to attain.
From Sandy by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
The sea lay smooth, without the slightest wind.
From Eskimo Folk-Tales by W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander) Worster
