Lying in example sentence

At the quay on the canal a barge was moored, half-laden, lying drowsily in the murky water; and on the deserted pit-bank, in which the decomposed sulphates smoked in spite of the rain, a melancholy cart showed its shafts erect.

More example sentences with word lying

When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch, as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young.

I don't want to defend the oil and gas industry but I'd be lying if I said I was surprised to hear they were the number one polluter.

It seems to us that when people start dissembling, people start lying about things, that's when it gets really interesting.

And it's a 35-key keyboard designed to fit both inside the scanner, be magnetically safe, have minimal interference that would contribute to any artifact, and have this cushion so that it can rest on the players' legs while they're lying down in the scanner, playing on their back.

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