Below you will find example sentences with "lying down". The examples show how this phrase is used in real sentences and which words often surround it.

Lying Down in a sentence

About this phrase

  • Belongs to the word: lying

Words in this phrase

lying down

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • lying can mean: present participle and gerund of lie (“to rest in a horizontal position”) Frequent word
  • down can mean: From a higher position to a lower one; downwards. Very common word

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

take 3× expression 2× immediately 2× clearly 2× now 2× hospital 2× colt 2× photo 2× sitting 2× upright 2× unconscious 2× roloff 2×

Related phrases

shut down knocked down sat down breaks down stepped down slow down touched down doubled down burned down sit down

Other phrases with this word

Other phrases with lying:

man lying 6×

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same ending:

shut down knocked down sat down breaks down stepped down slow down

Example types with lying down

Below, the examples are grouped by length and sentence type:

Short example sentences

But we are not lying down. (6 words)

I wasn’t just going to take that lying down. (10 words)

This practice can be done lying down or sitting upright. (10 words)

Longer example sentences

Bennett also expressed his mixed feelings after the fast-food binge, saying: "I kinda can't tell whether I feel like playing tackle football or fighting a cop or just kinda like lying down in the darkness. (37 words)

But does the expression “when you lie down” mean immediately after the act of lying down, just as the expression “when you get up” clearly means a particular moment immediately after the action ‘getting up’? (35 words)

Clearly not used to being behind, Easterhouse started to lose some composure, although a team of this calibre were not going to take this lying down and again they levelled the score five minutes later. (35 words)

Question examples

But does the expression “when you lie down” mean immediately after the act of lying down, just as the expression “when you get up” clearly means a particular moment immediately after the action ‘getting up’? (35 words)

Example sentences (20)

But does the expression “when you lie down” mean immediately after the act of lying down, just as the expression “when you get up” clearly means a particular moment immediately after the action ‘getting up’?

And I was just lying down all of the time, and a couple of years went by because the bones in my right leg from the knee down were not healing.

One of them decided to just plop down on my legs while I was lying down.

As I am talking to you right now, my mother is lying down in the hospital.

Back in the day, we celebrated Dodger pitching ace, Clem Labine; now we find Skippy Supine in the front office, lying down for the worst in our culture to roll right over him.

But some have even turned their attention to the driver who, they believe, shouldn't have accepted the defeat lying down.

Clearly not used to being behind, Easterhouse started to lose some composure, although a team of this calibre were not going to take this lying down and again they levelled the score five minutes later.

Colt posted a photo of Colt lying down in a hospital bed on January 2, 2023.

His wife, Fiona, has a heightened sense of touch due to being profoundly visually impaired, and felt a lump in Darren's chest while he was lying down.

In a different photo, she was also caught on cameras lying down with her head on her husband's thigh as he caressed her belly.

I've also found that deep-throating is a lot easier on me if the person is sitting upright versus lying down.

I wasn’t just going to take that lying down.

She's lying down unconscious, possibly even dead, but definitely unconscious.

The “Hail Caesar!” actor screamed while lying down on the floor.

The son of Amy and Matt Roloff posed with his three children, Jackson, Lilah Ray, and Josiah Roloff, while lying down on the couch at home.

This practice can be done lying down or sitting upright.

A drunk verbally abused police officers who tried to help him after he was spotted lying down on a busy dual carriageway.

Bennett also expressed his mixed feelings after the fast-food binge, saying: "I kinda can't tell whether I feel like playing tackle football or fighting a cop or just kinda like lying down in the darkness.

Bud knows inferior bedding is a topic I do not take lying down, so he wrote: “I have a possible column topic for you.

But we are not lying down.