The word lain used in a sentence

1. The church has lain empty and unused since 1994.

2. I had no sooner lain down than the telephone rang.

3. The corpse had lain preserved in the soil for almost two millennia.

4. She had lain there all night.

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5. These machines have lain idle since the factory closed.

6. She had lain in bed for so long that her shoulder blades had become ulcerated.

7. They had lain on sleeping bags on the concrete floor.

8. Her talent might have lain dormant had it not been for her aunt’s encouragement.

9. He must have lain awake all night.

10. I have lain at his feet.

11. She’d lain for two days on the cellar floor.

12. I’ve lain awake at nights, turning the problem over and over in my mind.

13. Darwin’s explanation of bright colour has lain dormant and untested for over a century.

14. She had lain in her bed for years, feigning illness and playing on the sympathy of her daughters.

15. It’s lain across the hill near Uffington for at least two thousand years.

16. She had lain on her bed at her farmhouse home on January 2 and put a double-barrelled shotgun to her head.

17. She would have lain down except that the benches had iron arms every two feet.

18. The live one had lain across him all that horrible long night in the storm.

19. I have lain awake all night waiting to get back to these words and I have now read them a dozen times.

20. Still, he had lain upon her knees and slept in her arms and therefore he should have honor throughout his life.

21. Two hours she had lain there — two whole hours of torment.

22. Her great success has lain in her willingness to use the vagueness and flexibility of the Constitution to her own ends.

23. I have to warn you that his motives have lain hidden.

24. Why don’t you lay on the bed? In the past tenses laid is often wrongly used for lay or lain :She had lain there all night.

25. Watkins probably heard mention of these ideas, the seeds from which may have lain dormant in him for over fifty years.

26. The Tynes, perched in their multitudes on the hand-carved cart that had lain cherished and unused in their garage.

27. Abruptly he jumped up and tore away the bedclothes, searching the rug on which he had lain.

28. This was Goat Island, created of silts and clays that had originally lain on the bottom of the vanished Lake Tonawanda.

29. Hefting a large, heavy pair of cable-cutters that had lain on a shelf, she let the first two go by.

30. Actually, if I hadn’t gone to check her, Hereward might have lain there till Sunday.

Sentence Examples

She then died a true death, and the curse that had lain upon herself and her victims was broken.

How many years have I lain here ?

I have lain in prison ever since I came to this land.

the crease proved that the garment had lain upon a shelf, and hence was ready-made.

I’ve lain awake all night worrying about you.

I HAD lain AWAKE NIGHTS FIGURING IT ALL OUT.

Trousers with a crease were considered plebeian; the crease proved that the garment had lain upon a shelf, and hence was ready-made.

Sometimes in the middle of the night… when I have been desperately tired… I have lain awake making plans. large and small, sensible and silly.

Pity you didn’t keep lain‘s car. That’s why I was shouting.

She was away in lain‘s car before 8:00.

We’ve stood up, we’ve lain down. We’ve concentrated, we’ve sat interminably… while that tiresome old woman recited extremely unflattering verses at us.

Yes, I’ve lain awake alone, night after night.

This skull has lain in the earth three and twenty year.

[ Male Tenor ] # The tree that may in summer wear # # A nest ofrobins in her hair # # Upon whose bosom snow has lain #

You would have kissed to me, you would have lain down to my side.

I have lain in sackcloth on the earth.

[15 or 20 days later, on the basis of anonymous information, the marshal…] [… would find an old army tank in the hole in Boscaccio…] [… that had lain there forgotten since the war.]

Note that my bike has lain for over a year in Jakob’s midden.

I’ve lain awake night after night, wondering what to do.

In the year of our Lord Judea, for nearly a century, had lain under the mastery of Rome.

Too weary, all have lain down, from the Seine to the Rhine… as gangrene flowers among the slain.

I knew one Sophie Western — was lain with by half the young fellows at Bath. Perhaps this is the same woman.

Who here hath lain these two days buried.

Here’s a skull now has lain you in the earth three-and-twenty years.

And not until your whole generation has lain down and died… will the deadweight of you be off our backs!

Good, and now exp lain y ourself.

Go get a I ittle champag ne and I’I I exp lain.

Oh…! And where is he lain?

Why thou hast quarreled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun.

A relative of his, Jean lain├® tried to machine-gun down the Germans, who then killed him.

«A vast, new storehouse of energy which has lain dormant since the beginning of time,» unquote.

Before God, has he lain with you?

For five days fog has lain over land and sea.

«on the road is lain powerful cross beams made of wood,» «and the metal bars used to guide the wagons are attached to these.»

For three years, Gisaburo had lain in that well

Sometimes, in the middle of the night when I’ve been desperately tired, I’ve lain awake making plans.

Another man lay in the bed in which he had lain.

Hello, this is plumber lain├®.

Another man Ia y in the bed in which he had lain.

I have lain here for nine weeks, delirious.

For hundreds of years, our Sea Devil brothers have lain entombed, waiting patiently for this day.

«He on whose heart the dust of Mexico has lain… will find no peace in any other land «

«A lion and a lioness have come there» «and stood, or lain on the grave for a long time.»

So for four hours the dispatch box had lain unguarded?

I’ve told you before. Why the hell not? Because I can’t stand being lain on and it gives me claustrophobia.

ah, true friend a heavy veil has lain over the truth.

For many turns, the truth about Khitomer has lain dormant, unknown.

Here’s a skull now… hath lain you in the earth some three-and-twenty years.

The boy has lain so close to my heart love a long day

I might possibly answer that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever.» In other words, the stone is the kind of object which had always been there and doesn’t need any special kind of explanation.

Sentences ending with lain

• They have made us weary, and in dreamless sleep these two long centuries have we lain. [5]
• He lay on the same couch where she had lain. [11]
• That evening they entered the harbour at Colombo; and Hall going to his cabin to seek his wife, could not find her; but in her stead was her hair, arranged carefully in flowing waves on the pillow, where through the voyage her head had lain. [11]
• A long, bronze arm reached out from above, and a painted face glowered at us from the very roots where Weldon had lain. [9]

Short sentences using lain

• It had lain upon hers. [9]

More example sentences with the word lain in them

• I will tell you,—I said.—When a given symbol which represents a thought has lain for a certain length of time in the mind, it undergoes a change like that which rest in a certain position gives to iron. [6]
• He had lain with his eyes closed. [11]
• Many the sharp winter day I have followed the fox with him over two counties, and lain that night, and a week after, forsooth, at the plantation of some kind friend who was only too glad to receive us. [9]
• There she was whom he had spared—himself; whose happiness had lain in his hands, and he had given it to her. [11]
• The hanging-scaffold, on which he had lain for months, working on the master’s pictures, had been removed, but there was still something to be done to the walls. [10]
• And next they went into the great square room that had been Lionel Carvel’s, and there, too, was the roomy bed on which the old gentleman had lain with the gout, while Richard read to him from the Spectator. [9]
• It would be we, instead of I, if Mrs. Clemens knew, but in all these 20 months that she has lain a prisoner in her bed we have hidden from her all things that could sadden her. [5]
• He had lain watching Charley for a long time, his brow drawn down with thought. [11]
• The old man was uneasy when he had lain down, and begged that Nell would come and sit at his bedside as she had done for so many nights. [12]
• The game of war had lain with the Grande Marquise—or La Pompadour, as she was called—and later it may be seen how I, unwillingly, moved her to set it going. [11]
• She was sitting up in bed—she had not lain down for months—and Katie and the nurse were supporting her. [5]
• Another had «here two days slept and three nights lain awake,» on account of this same «Dr. K.» In one place was a picture of Dr. K. hanging on a gallows. [5]
• The third mate told me in Honolulu that the ‘Portyghee’ had lain in his hammock for months, raising his family of abscesses and feeding like a cannibal. [5]
• We cannot go to war against desert wastes; but as our host is already under arms and our swords have lain long in their scabbards, war we must have. [10]
• Thus we went to our beds silent and downcast; and after we had lain there a long time and found no sleep the words would come, and I said: «My poor, dear Kunz! [10]
• She had wept, to be sure, at her husband’s confession, and lain awake over it in the night watches, and thought of the early days of their marriage. [9]
• One would have thought that the most scrupulous person need not have hesitated in asserting an unquestioned legal and equitable claim simply because it had lain a certain number of years in abeyance. [6]
• Many people believe this spot to be an ancient battle-ground, and it is usual to call it so; and they believe that these skeletons have lain for ages just where their proprietors fell in the great fight. [5]
• Thou hast said the thing that has lain in my heart. [11]
• If you knew the nights I have lain awake thinking about you two, or you three! [4]
• Then, suddenly, upon the middle of the road was a little pool of blood and signs that a body had lain in the dust. [11]
• But what of the long nights when husband and wife have lain side by side? [9]
• Falling backwards when the horse suddenly bolted, his head had struck the medicine-chest, and he had lain insensible till brought back to consciousness by the good offices of the voluble Colonel. [11]
• In the retrospect, the elements in him that had disturbed her were less disquieting, his intellectual fascination was enhanced: and in that very emancipation from cant and convention, characteristic of the Order to which he belonged, had lain much of his charm. [9]
• Yes, that was the Brussels rug that had lain before the fire, and which the little feet had worn in the corner. [9]
• Jane Withersteen realized that the spirit of wrath and war had lain dormant in her. [13]
• He knew them, still he did not know them in their fulness; he was grateful, but his gratitude did not compass the splendid self-effacing devotion with which she denied herself the glorious career that had lain before her. [11]
• But he must still be under the spell of the horrible dream, for the rattling and clattering around him continued, and the bed where the wounded Gaul had lain was empty. [10]
• He told Cumner’s Son that his face was as that of one who had lain in a grave, and he called aloud in a blustering voice, and beckoned for troopers to come. [11]
• His chief faculty seemed to be to give her the power to behold, with astonishing clearness, objects and truths which had lain before her eyes, and yet hidden. [9]
• When he again sat erect, two large tear-drops sparkled on the paper which had lain under his fingers. [10]
• According to the royal custom, the remains had lain in state at the palace thirty days, watched day and night by a guard of honor. [5]
• As though in response to an unspoken thought, he said casually: «I’m going to walk awhile when you’ve lain down, and then—» He pointed to a spot about twenty yards away. [11]
• It had been proposed by the Admiral of the station to bury him from his old ship, the Imperturbable, but the Royal Court made its claim, and so his body had lain in state in the Cohue Royale. [11]
• Had it been possible she, who was of no importance to any one, would willingly have lain down on the heap of straw in the place of the mother upon whom two young lives depended. [10]
• Or as you pass a roadside ditch or pool in springtime, take from it any bit of stick or straw which has lain undisturbed for a time. [6]
• Here, in Sodom, painted vice had lain for an hundred years and bred half the crime of a century. [9]
• I followed him out of the hole in which I had lain on to a deck, which, in the half light, I saw covered with slush and filth. [9]
• And all sorts of unexpected and unheard-of things, which had lain unseen during our national life of fourscore years, came up and are coming up daily, shaken from their bed by the concussions of the artillery bellowing around us. [6]
• Once the business of the court- room was over, a thought which had quietly lain in waiting behind the strenuous occupations of his brain leaped forward to exclude all others. [11]
• The bed had not been lain on, but was smooth and empty. [12]
• By her law none may be canonized until he hath lain dead four generations. [5]
• The ground of my doubt has lain in the possibility of such a trip further disordering the circulation. [6]
• Night after night Mr. Carvel had lain awake with the agony of those Eastern debts. [9]
• Presently, in the midst of the sword-flashes, I saw a handful of hair skip into the air as if it had lain loose on the victim’s head and a breath of wind had puffed it suddenly away. [5]
• An hour after midnight the old man awoke, and after he had lain meditating for some time with his eyes open, he said thoughtfully: «You called yourself and us all egotistic, and I certainly am so. [10]
• Vigon had gone mad, had lain in wait in Jopp’s house, and when the man he hated had seated himself in the chair, had lassoed him, bound him, and was slowly bleeding him to death. [11]
• And only a little while ago she and Lise had lain in that bed together! [9]
• He recalled the little shock he had experienced when told that she was divorced, for her appeal had lain in her very freshness, her frank and confiding manner. [9]
• He succeeded at last, and took up the garment that had lain waiting, meantime, across his lap, and began his work. [5]
• When he had lain there some time, he was told to get up, and a white leather apron, such as the others wore, was put on him: he was given a trowel and three pairs of gloves, and then the Grand Master addressed him. [2]
• When I had lain there some little time, I still had reflection enough to suffer some uneasiness in the thought that I should be trampled upon, when dead, as I myself had done to others. [5]
• After I had lain quiet a long, long time, a dim form passed by me and was swallowed up in the gloom that pervaded the farther end of the house. [5]
• There it has lain open ever s, and there it still lies, and yet no effort has been made at any time to wrest it from the South. [7]
• Their effigies have lain in this vast city, and passed unharmed through all its convulsions. [6]
• Old Sophy had lain down on her bed, and was muttering in troubled dreams. [6]
• The dog had lain down by the fire again, but its red eyes were blinking at the door, and now and again it growled softly, and the long hair at its mouth seemed to shiver with feeling. [11]
• At last she laid her hand on the lid to close it; but hesitated and took up a packet of letters that had lain amid several gold and silver coins, given by godmothers and godfathers, modest trinkets, and a withered rose. [10]
• Gaspe Toujours and Jeff Hyde had lain down in the tent the night of the great wind, and had gone to sleep at once. [11]
• These, having lain in the water so long, were crusted with a strong substance, which they had to break with iron bars. [11]
• I have lain in the nest of the Swan, I have heard, I have known; When thine eyes too have seen, When thine ears too have heard, Thou shalt do with me then as thou wilt. [11]
• I have lain in the nest of the Swan, I have heard, I have known; When thine eyes too have seen, When thine ears too have heard, Thou shalt do with me then as thou wilt! [11]
• Yet sometimes, almost in despair, when I have lain down in the desert beside my camel, set about with enemies, I have got a message from the barren desert, the wide silence, and the stars. [11]
• It was written in a discoloured blank-book, which had escaped the devastations of the mice and insects, because it had lain under a pile of aromatic herbs and drugs that had probably belonged to the shop of the Court apothecary. [10]
• But he kept his eyes closed, and would gladly have lain for a life-time with his head pillowed on her breast in the hope that her lips might once more meet his. [10]
• She had seen him often, and he was intimately associated with that day when she had run the Carillon Rapids and had lain (for how long she never dared to think) in Ingolby’s arms in the sight of all the world. [11]
• I have lain here all these hours—these ages, ye may say—listening, listening for any sound up there that—» She gave a sharp quick glance at her eldest daughter, then cried out, «Oh, my darling! [5]
• How long had he lain there? [11]
• A something it has of sepulchral spicery, as if it had been brought from the core of some great pyramid, where it had lain on the breast of a mummied Pharaoh. [6]
• When a skeleton has lain in the Tower exposed to the rain and the flaming sun a month it is perfectly dry and clean. [5]
• But the Goth had not lain in it long before Arianism went out of fashion quite, and the zealous Roman Catholics despoiled his costly sleeping-place, and scattered his ashes abroad. [4]
• Nay, if it had lain with him, he would have carried her to Rome with him. [10]
• The weight that had lain on her breast since the siren had awakened her that morning and she had reached out and touched the chilled, empty sheets now grew almost unsupportable. [9]
• Her hot hand had lain in his, just before her heart ceased to beat, and had pressed it, as if in farewell. [10]
• The English army had lain at Montmorenci, at the Island of Orleans, and at Point Levis; the English fleet in the basin opposite the town, since June of that great year, attacking and retreating, bombarding and besieging, to no great purpose. [11]
• The «Faraday place» had belonged to the middle ages, as time is reckoned in Quicksands, and had lain deserted for years, chiefly on account of its lugubrious and funereal aspect. [9]
• It was forwarded from the Tribune office, New York, where it had lain eight or ten days. [5]
• Dicky lay still for a moment to get his breath, then sprang to his feet lightly, cast a swift glance of triumph towards the Khedive, and turned to the dervishes who had lain beside him. [11]
• I had lain for a long time on my back; but after I got them, I learned to walk with them and they enabled me to stand before the loom, and to earn bread once more for my family. [10]
• But once she drew shrinking back behind a slow troop of them; for down at the bottom of a gorge lay a mountaineer, face upward and unmoving, as he had lain since a rock loosened beneath him, and the depths swallowed him. [11]
• He has lain down once too often. [5]
• The most trivial details remained as distinct and luminous in his head, after they had lain there for years, as the most memorable events. [5]
• I’ve just lain curled up there, happy. [5]
• It was Timokhin’s company, which alone had maintained its order in the wood and, having lain in ambush in a ditch, now attacked the French unexpectedly. [2]
• He would have come just the same if his prey had lain in a farmhouse among the hills, or in a tenement-house in C Street. [4]
• My eye was caught by those on the room that had been hers, and which, by my grandfather’s decree, had lain closed since she left it. [9]
• The young Hebrew, bringing a message, had arrived at the house of his grandfather Nun, before sunrise, after a long night walk from Pithom, called by the Hebrews Succoth, but finding it deserted had lain down in one of the rooms to rest a while. [10]
• Why had his brain and senses lain fallow all these months, a vacuous vegetation, an empty consciousness? [11]
• A wrecked, mouldering boat had lain close beside the scene of the murder. [10]
• Intently, carefully, he began to examine them, referring at the same time to a letter which had lain open at his hand while he had been sitting there. [11]
• Searching, he found and drew forth a small bottle which, for many a month past, had lain in the drawer of a table where he had placed it on his return from the Soudan. [11]
• I have struggled against it, I have lain awake nights trying to find justification for going to you, but it is stronger than I. I am afraid of it—I suppose that’s the truth. [9]
• His fingers had ached for Marcile’s neck, that neck in which he had lain his face so often in the transient, unforgettable days of their happiness. [11]
• She had lain about an hour in this state, when her breathing became more difficult, a slight cough made her breast heave, and the bright red blood trickled down from her lips on to her white robe. [10]
• For how long a space had lands and seas lain betwixt us, how swift and sudden had his wooing been and my consent! [10]
• On the road, a quarter of a mile townward, an aged colored man showed us, with pride, an unexploded bomb-shell which has lain in his yard since the day it fell there during the siege. [5]

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