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 glass was falling; the water of the basin no longer lay smooth as oil but beat against the ship grudgingly.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund
It was a morning in January, and the snow lay smooth and white over all those York State hills.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Hubbard, Elbert
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)
