lie around

idiom

: to be lying in a disordered way

He always had a lot of clothes lying around (his house).

: to be somewhere within a general area or place

I know that pen is lying around here somewhere.

: 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

Recent Examples on the Web 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 But there's more to do here than just lie around admiring the natural beauty of Alaska. —

Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 30 Nov. 2021 On a typical day, Paul would sleep until 9, then lie around watching TV. —

jsonline.com, 31 Aug. 2021 These are pretty standard Bantu knots, except for the wavy tendrils of medium-brown hair that lie around the perimeter of her face. —

Gabi Thorne, Allure, 12 Aug. 2021

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