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Example sentences for: laid

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After it was laid out in 1699, only Louis’ financiers could afford the rent.
Schmidt's codes of belonging, his fastidious prejudices, are laid bare.
On the heels of a recent piece that laid bare Trent Lott's fund-raising, today's Journal surveys the many competing campaign reform bills on the House docket (one dozen bills; 500 amendments) and concludes that "GOP leaders will assume the role of full partners in overhaul legislation--in an effort to kill it."
Whereas grotto sculpture in China is usually laid out more or less spontaneously, the caves here were apparently all planned to the last detail before the first stone was chipped, thus eliminating any repetition.
Nor did the Times show that any regular workers were laid off or fired to make way for cheaper workfarers.