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.

  • Evita: In the New Republic , historian Enrique Krauze lists the horrors of Perónism glossed over by the musical and film: the torture and murder of political opponents, often under Nazi tutelage; the sheltering of war criminals, possibly for personal profit; the destruction of the Argentine economy; the laying of the cornerstone for the "Dirty Wars" of the 1970s and 1980s.

  • For a short time--I think it was when IBM started laying off tens of thousands of workers--it seemed that the ideas of economies of scale and scope had been permanently discredited.

  • From USA Today , this stop-the-presses news on condoms-in-the-schools programs: "Condom Access Shows No Effect on Teen Sex Rate," which evoked this response from Family Research Council spokeswoman Gracie Hsu: "You are laying down a standard that says teen-age sexual behavior is fine so long as you use condoms."

  • 5 h post egg laying.


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