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 Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

There was no danger, however, for beyond the northern point of Try-again Inlet the water lay smooth all along the shore.

From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)