lain
pronunciation
How to pronounce lain in British English:
UK [leɪn]
How to pronounce lain in American English:
US [leɪn]
Word Origin
- lain
- past participle of lie (v.2).
Example
- 1. That suddenly upset the diplomatic limbo in which the territorial dispute had lain for years .
- 2. But that detail , he says , had lain unnoticed for years in the national archive .
- 3. I look out now at certain times of the day and see that he has glued up some paper in his window and has lain down under his desk for his cat nap .
- 4. The buffalo had lain in a bank vault since the battle of britain in 1940 and was still wrapped in wartime newspaper when mr axford saw it for the first time .
- 5. The two horses had just lain down when a brood of ducklings , which had lost their mother , filed into the barn , cheeping feebly and wandering from side to side to find some place where they would not be trodden on .