"lay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Caesar attempted to get away, but, blinded by blood, he tripped and fell; the men continued stabbing him as he lay defenseless on the lower steps of the portico.
- From the Carpathians, Batu Khan reported a similar unexpected success, and now the messengers between the two groups carried the exultant word that Europe lay defenseless.
- Scotland lay defenseless and Edward set about amalgamating her into England.
- The state lay defenseless before internal and external threats, as the Byzantine army had been reduced to a shadow of its former self.
- But it then occurred to me that I knew not where this man's remaining conspirators were, and that Elias lay defenseless upstairs.
- A lesser woman might have killed him while he lay defenseless in her bed, but not Chenaya.
- Numb, he lay defenseless for an instant.
- Long he lay powerless and defenseless.
- In the words of Íslendinga saga, after he had run out from Flugumýrarbrenna, being aged, he stumbled and lay defenseless:
- However, she was never to finish this as, on 5 December 1940, Luftwaffe bombers struck Portsmouth while Cameron lay defenseless in drydock no. 8.
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