How To Use Laid low In A Sentence
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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I'd be lying, semi-conscious in my hospital bed, laid low by my flaky pods, defenceless against her scheming ways.
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But the Trojans were dying, first for their fatherland, fairest fame to win; whomso the sword laid low, all these found friends to bear their bodies home and were laid to rest in the bosom of their native land, their funeral rites all duly paid by duteous hands.
The Trojan Women
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For all that she had the outer trappings of a social butterfly, they imperfectly concealed the heart of a Visigoth, and she consorted merrily with the Captain in rough weather, while her husband spent the trip laid low by seasickness.
On Doris Lessing « Tales from the Reading Room
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And then, when there were no more full bites left, the last three of the group slid across the grass to absorb the blood and tissue from the lawn, laid low and sopping up his traces with their absorbant Kharal bodies, efficient and masterful to watch—like serpentine bio-cleaners, sliding on their bellies and wiping the land squeaky clean.
The Hiders
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Eleven Aberdeen players were laid low by the virus, and Rangers lost their international goalkeeper Andy Goram to the bug.
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He explains how he laid low for six months after the invasion before contacting old comrades and taking up arms.
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The whole family was laid low by / with ( ie was ill and in bed with ) flu.
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The hunters laid low seven pheasants.
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Time and again, advanced and cultured societies have been laid low by more primitive and virile enemies with superior military institutions and a stronger will to fight.
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Our plan has been laid low by his refusal to cooperate with us.
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We asked some stragglers about it, and they said everybody went to the show looking very innocent; and laid low and kept dark till the poor old king was in the middle of his cavortings on the stage; then somebody give a signal, and the house rose up and went for them.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Eleven Aberdeen players were laid low by the virus, and Rangers lost their international goalkeeper Andy Goram to the bug.
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His limbs may fail him, but, as if by magic, they regain their vigour, and he stands erect, ready for battle after battle until he has laid low his enemy and liberated the country.
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Each of the two protagonists is more or less moribund - one convalescing after a near fatal collapse; the other laid low by deep vein thrombosis.
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Richard Conlon's Brick, handsome, quiet, explosively raging in his guilt and despair over the death of his friend, is the quintessence of the rich boy laid low by unforgiving social mores.
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Then a second came forth and he slew him also, and a third and he tare him in twain, and a fourth and he did him to death; nor did they cease sallying out to him and he left not slaying them, till it was noon, by which time he had laid low two hundred braves.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He admitted to having been laid low by a quartan ague but insisted it was nothing to worry about.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
