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Example sentences for: laying

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

"Unless he's laying bleeding in the street [a sometime occurrence with him], I don't allow myself to get too involved," she's quoted as saying.
I know few of my leftie pals will be sad for the Colt gun company, which is laying off hundreds of its West Hartford, Conn., workers and trashing its consumer business because it's been savaged by lawsuits.
By contrast, northern species lay larger clutches and have shorter fledging periods, and laying date is more readily predicted, making investigations of phenological shifts associated with modern climatic change more straightforward (e.g.
Although he lost his hold on power shortly after José’s death in 1777, many of his reforms survived, laying the foundation for the modern Portuguese state.
The news that I am "laying waste to an entire generation of men" exceeds my greatest ambition in this regard.