How to use in-sentence of “lay in”:
– More than 300,000 people paid their respects to his body, which lay in state for three days.
– Diaghilev’s gift lay in spotting talent, and bringing great artists to work together.
– Perceval’s body lay in 10 Downing Street for five days before burial.
– He took the scythe, and lay in wait for Uranos to come down to Earth to lie with Gaia.
– Eilaf was instructed to rebuild Hexham Church which then lay in utter ruin.
– One man described them as, “pale fawn in colour, and they left blotchy red bite marks all over the body.” Another soldier said, “The things lay in the seams of trousers, in the deep furrows of long thick woolly pants, and seemed impregnable in their deep entrenchment.
– For the first time in royal history, Edward lay in state for the people to pay their last respects, a reflection of his immense popularity.
– At school, he found that his strengths lay in statistical analysis.
Example sentences of “lay in”:
- For the rest of the day, they lay in the sun and play with their children.
- After being puzzled by this, Socrates finally decided that his wisdom lay in knowing that he was ignorant.
- Dead bodies lay in the hot Florida sun for days.
– For the rest of the day, they lay in the sun and play with their children.
– After being puzzled by this, Socrates finally decided that his wisdom lay in knowing that he was ignorant.
– Dead bodies lay in the hot Florida sun for days.
– He lay in Westminster Hall before his state funeral.
– Henry Ford insisted that the company’s future lay in the production of affordable cars for a mass market.
– By the end of the siege on 4 July the city of Sevastopol lay in ruins, and 30,000 tons of artillery ammunition had been fired.
– On the 205th anniversary of his death, on 17 August 1991, Frederick’s casket lay in state in the court of honor of Sanssouci, covered by a Prussian flag and escorted by a Bundeswehr guard of honour.
– He was mentioned in the Quran as the “second of the two who lay in the cave” in reference to the event of Hijra hijra, where with Muhammad he hid in the cave in Jabal Thawr from the Meccan search party that was sent after them, thus being one of few who were given direct mention in the Quran.
– Early in its history, Stroud lay in Oklahoma Territory, where alcoholic drinks could be sold legally.
– By then the real interest lay in the same effects caused by gamma rays from nuclear testing.
– Mandela’s body lay in state from 11 to 13 December at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
– Others lay in halls on piles of straw in extremely dirty conditions.
– The pleasures of the performance with its occasional songs based on ballads and tarantellas, lay in the village vitality, the lusty folk element.