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 lake around his island lay smooth and dark and deep, And wrapt in a misty stillness the mountains were all asleep.

From Sixteen Poems by Allingham, William

The peacefulness of the evening was awe-inspiring; the ocean lay smooth as a sheet of glass, rising and falling like the breast of a sleeping child.

From In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas by Boothby, Guy Newell

The grass lay smooth and green, and bore no trace of the relentless summer.

From The Great White Army by Pemberton, Max, Sir