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Example sentences for: layman

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

Lawyers will understand that the author is inveighing against precedent only as a false pretense for fake precision, but an innocent layman straying into these pages might well take it from the broad-gauged blasts that the whole doctrine of precedent is a grand illusion, a sort of pseudo-science like astrology, in which lawyers and judges count the angels dancing on the point of a needle:
One way of putting some of these racquet games into sharper focus would be to minimize use of the words paddle and racquet . To the layman, terms like paddleball, paddle tennis, racquets, racquetball , etc., just fuse into a blur.
Interestingly, in spite of their obscure origins, these are the only three racquet sports whose names communicate something specific to the layman.
In this writing, legal means `pertaining to the law,' rather than `lawful'; layman means `non-lawyer' (including the feminine); he, him and his include the feminine; and Anglo-Saxon means `Old English.
a layman's guide" (Adrian Wooldridge, the Wall Street Journal ).