lain
Example Sentences
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Buildings that had lain dormant for years were suddenly filled with music and dance.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
"It's fascinating for me to see how shipwrecks that have lain there and been dived for for years and years still have new things to reveal every time people go and dive them," he said.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
Someone close to us had died along the shoulder of a highway and had lain unnamed for more than 40 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
A rich copper belt in the north of the country has lain fallow since Macri crashed and burned in 2018.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2025
It had lain on the table for months.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
