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
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 Duncan, Norman
On one side the snow lay smooth and untouched; on the other, close under and around the mass of dead roots, was a little thicket of low bushes and a shoulder of black rock.
From The Ice Queen by Ingersoll, Ernest
The lake around his island lay smooth and dark and deep, And wrapt in a misty stillness the mountains were all asleep.
From Sixteen Poems by Allingham, William
