Example sentences for: laying

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

  • The men may be laying out dozens of cod to dry on what are known as flakes, the same trestled wooden racks still used in fishing villages all down the coast.

  • In the late 19 th century, beauty, connoting as it did individual service and the laying on of hands, was considered a trade too vulgar for respectable people.

  • "The characters keep laying into each other, as if to slam home the message--for what it's worth--that everybody hurts sometime" (Lane).

  • And laying mash, as any farmer knows, is a form of chicken feed so formulated as to enhance egg production.

  • Taking phylogeny and the idiosyncrasies of the Australian avifauna into account, southern species typically lay small clutches and have long fledging periods, and it is often difficult to predict their date of first laying or, indeed, whether they will lay in a particular year at all (Covas et al.


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