lie out
Example Sentences
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“Items should lie out in the sun. Trees and shrubs stand all day long in the sun, don’t they?”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Balian and his colleagues also allege that Grossman got her family to lie out of desperation during the trial.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024
The airborne nuts lie out of reach from many of the squirrels’ competitors, and likely last much longer than they would in the damp rainforest soil, where everything decomposes quickly.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 15, 2023
“The tunnel was insufficiently wide to lie out straight at night, and the men were so tightly packed that if one man had to turn over, all those around him had to do the same.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 15, 2023
They would lie out on sandbanks or float just below the surface of the water, carefully watching the animals that came to the river to drink.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
