"lie" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I did a double-take when I saw a small Turner watercolor lying carelessly on a stack of tin cans and burlap.
- He was dressed in a new shooting-jacket, with his gun lying carelessly across his shoulder, and an ugly pointer dog following at a little distance.
- He glanced at a long, yellow mummy, its wrappings still quite well preserved, lying carelessly, it seemed, on a nearby shelf.
- The lantern revealed his excavations, his tools lying carelessly where he had dropped them-and a black gaping aperture!
- He could see a gavel lying carelessly on the desk near Marshall's hand.
- Valuable tapestries were also lying carelessly around.
- At length, looking under the bed, they saw a large, common hair trunk, without hinges, hasp, or lock, and with the top lying carelessly across the bottom portion.
- In front of it was a multi gym dumbbells lying carelessly to one side.
- It just goes to show that one should never leave old enemies lying carelessly about.
- His coffin was in the centre of the dim cellar, its lid lying carelessly on the floor beside it.
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