"lie" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They came to a region where pans were lying on the floor so thickly that it was hard to avoid stepping on them.
- Christmas Eve had resembled a storybook illustration, with snow lying thickly on the ground and along the limbs of the evergreens.
- Magic, stealing through the ancient forest, lying thickly on the air.
- The Salamander's right arm, lying thickly along the arm of his chair, was somehow menacing.
- The streets outside were empty, the red dust lying thickly on the grass in the square, a foot deep against the walls at the far end.
- The fire burned in the grate; a lamp was set lighted on the chimney-shelf, for even in the houses the fog began to lie thickly; and there, close up to the warmth, sat Dr Jekyll, looking deadly sick.
- I saw broken pottery, shards lying thickly among layers of what did seem like dust, save that it was dull blue in color.
- But there were so many things he could not say, all lying thickly on his silent tongue, bitter and revolting.
- When Commonwealth burial parties returned to the peninsula in 1919 after the war's end, the bones of the dead light horsemen were still lying thickly on the small piece of ground.
- When he had left the nurse a little while back, he had found the snow lying thickly on the ground and sent for Spiridon.
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