lay claim

How To Use lay claim In A Sentence

• Nomaga had become something of an enigmatic legend in the School, as he had ascended ranks faster than the vast majority could lay claim to.
• Yet who else can lay claim to winning four gold medals at four successive Olympic Games?
• Five Asian countries lay claim to the islands.
• The following spring, other birds - including bluebirds, tree swallows, house wrens and a host of other secondary cavity-nesting species - scout out and lay claim to these secondhand houses.
• Do you mean that only Nobel laureates and their peers can lay claim to the hallowed occupation of research?
• I say whoever gets there first – design or self-assembly – the winner gets to lay claim to the more reasonable "expectation". A Good Saturday Evening Flick
• If the land really belongs to you, why don't you lay claim to it?
• There had come, as the years went by, a few recruits; but faces were missing: the two Tabors had gone, and Uncle Joe Davey could no longer lay claim to the patriarchship; he had laid it down with a half-sigh and gone his way. The Conquest of Canaan
• But we don't lay claim to comparable expertise in every area.
• She was scrawny and flea-ridden, but her manners were impeccable as she gently placed her paw on my arm, as if to lay claim to me.