lie along

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His second wife, played by Linda Cardellini, has done what she can to “fix” Floyd, but his dreams don’t lie along manhood’s traditional path.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Both lie along the N = Z line, which is especially important in nuclear physics.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

This show includes two magnificent six-panel folding screens that Shunsho painted around 1790, in which well-dressed women lie along parallel diagonal lines at the same scale — so-called axonometric perspective, a pillar of Chinese painting.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

Other local camps that would host American forces lie along the country’s western coast, which faces the disputed South China Sea.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 1, 2023

Soldiers from an infantry battalion lie along the platform, all of them asleep, as though some enchantress has cast a spell over them.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr