Example sentences for: lays

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

  • They should recognize that new technology "lays bare throughout the world our most intimate and secret acts--sins which would be quickly forgotten if, for example, the internet didn't render them shameful, obscene and irremovable."

  • Then, two years ago, Grove published Only the Paranoid Survive , which lays out a kind of Schumpeterian theory of major transformations in the business climate and tries to explain how to deal with them.

  • The paper lays much of the blame for this on the inadequacies of the D.C. medical examiner's office.

  • "Like Lady Di," it said, "fate struck because, according to one of those Elizabethan poets of whom President Kennedy always kept a quotation in reserve [not Elizabethan actually: James Shirley, 1596-1666], 'There is no armor against fate;/ Death lays his icy hand on kings.

  • In a compelling essay in this issue of PLoS Medicine , Mike Clarke, the director of the United Kingdom Cochrane Centre, lays down a challenge to clinical researchers and journal editors [1].


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