lie around
idiom
1
: to be lying in a disordered way
He always had a lot of clothes lying around (his house).
2
: to be somewhere within a general area or place
I know that pen is lying around here somewhere.
3
: to spend time resting in a lazy way
She spent the whole day just lying around.
My friends and I were lying around by the pool.
Examples of lie around in a Sentence
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This money will lie around, worrying people’s minds, until it is squandered on some civic improvement.
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Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
Although some may see this as the beginning of the end, simply looking at past halving events shows that huge opportunities lie around the corner.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
So never being comfortable and always worrying a little bit about what might lie around the corner.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 12 June 2024
Hendrickson spoke as if his participation in the lie around Castro’s death was, at best, incidental.
—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
The Mavericks’ main problems lie around, not with, their superstar duo, TNT analysts said this week.
—Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
The family's three dogs lie around the mat, two of them watching Malti play.
—Shafiq Najib, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2022
The pain and discomfort of these symptoms can put a pause on our daily productivity, focus, and desire to do anything other than lie around the house.
—Aley Arion, Essence, 25 Mar. 2022
But for some of the top finance executives, who spoke at a Fortune CFO event on Monday, some of the biggest concerns lie around how to attract quality talent and convince businesses to change the traditional systems that they’ve been used to.
—Felicia Hou, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2021
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Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
Although some may see this as the beginning of the end, simply looking at past halving events shows that huge opportunities lie around the corner.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
So never being comfortable and always worrying a little bit about what might lie around the corner.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 12 June 2024
Hendrickson spoke as if his participation in the lie around Castro’s death was, at best, incidental.
—Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
The Mavericks’ main problems lie around, not with, their superstar duo, TNT analysts said this week.
—Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
The family's three dogs lie around the mat, two of them watching Malti play.
—Shafiq Najib, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2022
The pain and discomfort of these symptoms can put a pause on our daily productivity, focus, and desire to do anything other than lie around the house.
—Aley Arion, Essence, 25 Mar. 2022
But for some of the top finance executives, who spoke at a Fortune CFO event on Monday, some of the biggest concerns lie around how to attract quality talent and convince businesses to change the traditional systems that they’ve been used to.
—Felicia Hou, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2021
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“Lie around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lie%20around. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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