We have no meanings for "lay the corpse" in our records yet.
1 There lay the corpse in the narrow berth, just as it had been stricken.
2 Below lay the corpse of Mr. Noble, frozen stiff.
3 She was brown, small, and toil-worn, and in one arm lay the corpse of a dark baby.
4 In front of me lay the corpse .
5 The tragedy was finished; there lay the corpse , and we had not yet realised that it had been enacted.
6 Some new object of desire appeared every moment; here lay the corpse of a warrior, yonder his shattered chariot.
7 The wagon arriving shortly afterward, we had barely time to lay the corpse in the coffin before the emigrants drove up.
8 The children, grumbling, disappeared, and Simon was at last able to enter the room and lay the corpse on the kitchen bench.
9 Face down amid the raft's mass of loose planks and deflated rubber lay the corpse of a woman in a striped T-shirt and trousers.
10 He dug the graves, and laid the corpse in the kindly soil.
11 Again the bearers approached and laid the corpse upon the flaming pyre.
12 And whoever laid the corpse in the ground-because it didn't bury itself.
13 Mr. Grumbacher shrugged and laid the corpse on the grass near the driveway.
14 There he laid the corpse down on the tiled floor.
15 At his feet lay the corpses of his morning comrades,-scalped ,stripped ,hackedalmost piecemeal!
16 All around lay the corpses of men and mules.
Other examples for "lay the corpse"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
This collocation consists of: