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Example Sentences

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Yet within seconds, that joy turned to concern as Isak lay on the floor in agony after Micky van de Ven's tackle.

From BBC

In the meantime, visitors to the garden centre had to walk around him as he lay on the floor.

From BBC

On a sunny morning in September, a dead doe lay on the side of a small road just off 395, as cars whizzed by on the artery that connects communities along the Eastern Sierra.

From Los Angeles Times

For the wolf was so large that when she lay on her side, curved neatly against one wall of the cave, all three Incorrigibles could nestle cozily against her.

From Literature

He’d look at the color of the sky at sunset and know what weather lay on the horizon: “Red sky at night, sailors’ delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.”

From Literature