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 Hubbard, Elbert

Feivke looked down from the bridge into the deep, black water that lay smooth and still in the shadow of the trees.

From Yiddish Tales by Various

The grass lay smooth and green, and bore no trace of the relentless summer.

From The Great White Army by Pemberton, Max, Sir