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

Amid autumnal silence the distant sea lay smooth as glass.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa

Madame went to the window; madame stared far below the balcony at the broad river which lay smooth and white in the morning sunshine; madame drummed on the window-casing.

From The Grey Cloak by Peirce, Thomas Mitchell

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