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Idioms and Phrases

see lie in wait .
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Example Sentences

Like two figures carved in stone sat the two liers-in-wait, their well-trained horses as motionless as themselves.

Next day, after a long lying-in-wait, I intercepted Adam Waggett and beckoned him into the shrubbery.

They despise men who "suspect" for a living; they hate legal lyers-in-wait and the highwaymen of the law.

Every few yards of the bad lands offered perfect lurking places for liers-in-wait along the trail.

His eye is black as Erebus, and has the most mocking, lying-in-wait sort of expression conceivable.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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