Example sentences for: lair

How can you use “lair” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By a.d. 900, the Hong Kong islands had become a lair for pirates preying on the shipping in the Pearl River Delta and causing a major headache for burgeoning Guangzhou; small bands of pirates were still operating into the early years of the 20th century.

  • Your click sets off an alarm in their lair, Shuman kicks awake his nearest dozing acolyte, and he or she will personally retype the Slate article in question and e-mail it to anyone you choose.

  • Aberdeen, the island’s oldest settlement, once a pirate lair, is home to the “floating population” — the boat people who spend their entire lives on the junks in the harbor, some proudly claiming never to have set foot on land (except for funerals, which don’t count).

  • Both the NYT and the WP report that this coming Sunday night, "60 Minutes" producer Don Hewitt will appear on the show to apologize for a previous broadcast of footage about the Colombian drug trade (purchased from a documentary-maker) that is now known to be fake, with actors playing drug dealers and a drug lair turning out to be a film-maker's hotel room.

  • The last and most nearly effective of the plots was Stauffenberg's, which hinged not only on the bomb he brought into Hitler's "Wolf's Lair" headquarters in East Prussia, but also on coordinated strikes against the Nazi power structure in Berlin and all across Europe.


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