"lay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The line then lay idle for a number of years.
- Her hands lay idle on the furs, as if she'd forgotten what she was about.
- The Shadow lay idle for a full ten minutes; the closing of the steel door had made him safe from observation.
- Plants lay idle, nothing to do-and no one to do it for them.
- The connecting track lay idle for two decades before finally being removed in the mid-1990s.
- The mine then lay idle until 1974, when it was reopened.
- Some was given to rich people, and some of it lays idle.
- Then came the recession, and the land lay idle.
- After the plague, many farms lay idle while the population slowly increased.
- Not one to lay idle, he embarked upon a number of business ventures.
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