How to use "lying" in a sentence

It's lying open on top of the boulder.

Captain Nemo took me to a room where there was a man lying on a bed

They played for about an hour, and I was lying back with my eyes closed, listening happily

Chandler arrived at number 29 and noted down that the woman was lying on her back, with a deep cut from left to right across her throat and mutilations to her stomach

At 8.30 on Saturday night Constable Robinson found a woman lying on the pavement in Aldgate High Street

Then he saw a body lying on the bed and a lot of blood

But some students of the murders believe that Hutchinson's description is too precise and that he was lying for some reason.

A few minutes later, an old woman came out of the cathedral and saw him lying there.

A woman saw me lying on a stone bench across the square and suggested that I come here

One evening, he found a handkerchief lying on the bench which M

Then he noticed a small parcel of papers lying on the ground.

The old man's been lying to us!'

Then one morning, a few days later, Cosette noticed a large stone lying on the garden bench

Cosette's blotter was lying on a cupboard just below it and, as Valjean stared at its reflection, he read the following lines:

With Marius lying across his shoulders, Valjean walked forward into the darkness, feeling his way along the wet, slippery walls with his hands

Gillenormand saw his pale, lifeless-looking grandson lying on the sofa, he shook from head to foot

I am on the ground lying on cold grass which is wet from the fog, and I am alone.

"You're a cheating, lying, horrible monster of a man

Gerry considers lying, but Big Jones can never find him here

He thinks about lying, but why? The priest promises not to tell a soul

"Because you're just lying in the pod, they're able to store all the heat energy that your body creates

But whenever she thought about lying in a pod for months, her stomach seemed to turn over and over - in spite of what she'd told Cham.

"And then, when everything is attached, the pod moves into a horizontal position, so you're lying down."

"She's lying down, having a little rest."

"But the problem is, they can test Cham to check if he's lying

And all the time, the real Mrs de Winter, with her smile and her lovely face is lying cold and dead in the church.'

'It's Rebecca's body lying there on the cabin floor.'

It's Rebecca who's lying there on the cabin floor

She closed her eyes and imagined herself lying beside him, reaching for him in the dark, touching, touching, moving against him, into the shelter of his arms

She'd always known when he was lying

She didn't think he was lying now

She searched his face for any sign that he was lying, but his bewilderment seemed genuine

And if he were lying, he wouldn't have told her the story about Charlie and coffee, for that could be substantiated or disproved with only a minimum of effort; he would have come up with a better alibi if he really needed one

Apparently, when a child dies, one of the worst things a parent can do is refuse to look at the body while it's lying in a casket

The stranger had been lying in the snow, watching them, waiting; now he had a wet hole in his chest

Colonel Protheroe was lying across my desk

'But if Redding is lying...' Melchett stopped

Then I saw the pistol lying on the floor beside him

I remember a clock lying there, but I did not touch it.'

It was lying with the other one in your stepmother's bedroom.'

As I stood up, I noticed a shiny brown stone lying on the ground

And all the time the poor colonel was lying murdered.'

The two men hurried back at once to the common, and found the cylinder still lying in the same position

'He may be lying dead there.'

He found himself lying under a group of burnt dead men and horses

As they passed the bend in the road, my brother saw a man lying not far away

I crawled back into the kitchen and saw him lying down and looking out of the hole at the Martians.

The curate, who had been lying silently with his arms over his head, looked up as I passed, cried out quite loudly and came running after me.

Near the top of Putney Hill I came across more human bones, eaten clean and left lying around

There was a hat lying in the mud, and a lot of broken glass with blood on it.

A jeweller's window had been broken open in one place, but the thief had clearly been chased away, because a number of gold chains and a watch were lying on the pavement

At first I thought a house had fallen across the road, but when I climbed up on the ruins I saw, with a shock, this great machine lying, with its tentacles bent and twisted, among the ruins that it had made

In front of me the road became black and I saw the twisted shape of a body lying across the pavement

And all around it, some in their overturned war-machines and some in building-machines, and ten of them lying in a row, were the Martians - dead! They had been killed by germs against which their systems could not fight; killed, after all man's machines had failed, by the smallest things that God has put on this Earth.

I followed them to my study and found, lying on my writing- table, the page of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder

'It's no use lying to me