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Example sentences for: laid

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The groundwork had been laid for Steve Ballmer's accession to the throne, and it's been clear for a while that Wall Street is very comfortable with Ballmer at the reins.
Among other monuments, he erected his distinctive arched gate, and completed the temple of Olympian Zeus on foundations laid by Peisistratus nearly seven centuries earlier (see page 57).
In American foreign-policy circles, everyone is waiting for the next X. "X" was the byline on the famous 1947 essay in Foreign Affairs , actually written by George Kennan, that analyzed Soviet communism and laid out the post-World War II policy of "containment."
& as she laid the cards out slowly before herShe quietly rocked a little in her chair
Two years later, the Turks laid siege to the capital, Candia.