"lay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He had been laying undiscovered for about a month until a neighbour alerted the police.
- A man's voice announces that he died in 1985 and that his body lay undiscovered for 10 days.
- Britcher's work lay mostly undiscovered for two centuries and it is only in the 2000s that a full study of his records has been possible.
- Robert probably lay undiscovered for hours because there were no passing motorists to spot him.
- The package had laid undiscovered there for nearly 50 years.
- How could so vast a thing lay undiscovered for so long?
- So far the big shot's game lay undiscovered.
- Neither of us had the least idea how wide the oceans were, or that America lay undiscovered somewhere in their midst.
- The Decorah crater lay undiscovered until recently because almost none of it is above ground.
- But his collection lay undiscovered for decades, until a careful piece of botanical detective work brought it to light.
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