Sentence for lain | Use lain in a sentence

Lain example sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use lain in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for lain.

  • She had lain in a trance. (10)
  • Harz had lain down, fully dressed. (8)
  • He should have lain off to the distance. (8)
  • There they had lain forgotten ever since. (8)
  • I wish our way had always lain among woods. (2)
  • It must have lain two days under that bust! (8)
  • She had lain back very inertly in that chair! (8)
  • He had lain in wait for her, and she had fled like a deer. (12)
  • What a charming wish, to be lain at my feet when he was dead! (4)
  • She did not know how long she had lain there, she did not care. (9)
  • He has lain in prison under this charge for more than two months. (8)
  • My emotions have lain altogether dormant in sentimental attachment. (10)
  • It could not have been clearer to vision if it had lain under his eyes. (10)
  • He had lain there all the morning since his master went up by the early train. (8)
  • How the delicacy, the discretion of his favourite could have been so lain asleep! (4)
  • Her senses had lain as under a charm, with heart at anchor and a mind free to work. (10)
  • How many nights had that most ill-fated of brides lain listening to the idiotic uproar! (10)
  • After she had lain rigid for a while, she had undressed herself and crept back into bed. (12)
  • All day long the road had lain through pastureland, with thick green hedges and heavily feathered elms. (8)
  • Could it have been to-day she had lain on the ground with tears of despair running down on to her hands? (8)
  • The words had now been spoken that for so many hours, she knew, had lain unspoken within her own breast. (8)
  • And Michael stammered that he had lain there and lain there, and listened and listened. (12)
  • He remembered how he had lain in a long cane chair in the window of his sitting-room off Victoria Street. (8)
  • Her hot hand had lain in his, just before her heart ceased to beat, and had pressed it, as if in farewell. (5)
  • On such a cliff might Theocritus have lain, spinning his songs; on that divine sea Odysseus should have passed. (8)
  • To this he had consented, and gone out and looked after the idiot, who had lain there helpless and drunk as a swine. (12)
  • For many days now he had lain in bed in a room exuding silver, crimson, and electric light, smelling of opopanax and of cigars. (8)
  • At last they made off, laden like camels with their booty; and Swanston Farm has lain out of the way of history from that time forward. (2)
  • She remembered how she had lain, brooding, on that piece of red and yellow tapestry, twisting its tassels, staring through half-closed eyes at nothing. (8)

Also see sentences for: laid, laird.

Definition of lain:

  • lain, pa.p. of lie, to rest.(0)

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