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
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 Elbert Hubbard
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 Edmund Blunden
Day after day we pushed on: with no mercy on the complaining dogs—plunging through the drifts, whipping the team up the steeper hills, speeding when the going lay smooth before us....
From Doctor Luke of the Labrador by Norman Duncan
