laid vs lain

laid

Definitions

adjective

  1. set down according to a plan

Examples

She laid a little of her pay away each week.

A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and

The somnolent Hampden conference suddenly started to come alive as he laid into Labour as a waste of space in Westminster.

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