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 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
On one side the snow lay smooth and untouched; on the other, close under and around the mass of dead roots, was a little thicket of low bushes and a shoulder of black rock.
From The Ice Queen by Ingersoll, Ernest
The snow lay smooth on the two graves, and she placed her flowers upon them softly without disturbing the white covering.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)
