lie in
Example Sentences
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Some people used the Easter Monday bank holiday as a chance to have a much-needed lie-in.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025
Now, no-one else seems to be wearing make-up either, says Sarah, and possibly, like her, they'll decide they'd rather keep the morning lie-in.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2022
He likes the lie-in, too, because it annoys the wrong people.
From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2020
Even at their busiest, Suuronen did not employ more than a dozen people and each started work at 10am, thanks to the boss’s fondness for a lie-in.
From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2018
Chased from our classic souls shall be All thoughts of vulgar progeny; And thou shalt walk through smiling rows Of chubby duodecimos, While I, to match thy products nearly, Shall lie-in of a quarto yearly.
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
