How To Use Lay In A Sentence

There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge. Times, Sunday Times
She tore her eyes from them for a moment to spy the bodhrán player in the tree, tapping out her rhythm with her eyes closed, not noticing the spy amongst them.
Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
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The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
Petanque may be the only sport inspired by a disability - that of Jules LeNoir, who in 1910 was a dedicated player of boules, a French game much like bocce ball.
He literally danced his music into being, conducting his bass players, drummers and horn section with his hips.
Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils. Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
I have no great picture of her to link because I am out of town in San Francisco and all the pictures I have are the naked librarian Playboy centerfolds I got in email a few days back.
I think a lot of players from bigger clubs have spent time on loan at smaller clubs and it has really helped.
The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
Manchester City have put themselves into a different stratosphere and a lot of players want to be part of that. Times, Sunday Times
I play the piano, so it is natural for me to think ‘harmonically’ a lot of the time (one can hear harmonies instantly on a piano; also mainstream jazz is extremely harmony driven).
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My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
He was, when he chose to lay aside his mountebankery, an excellent and inspiring conductor. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
The affair isn't the thing that makes me believe he needs to be removed from office – it's the monumental lack of judgment he displayed in abandoning his states and his duties as governor. Sanford should stay, two top South Carolina papers say
Hurrah!" came from the right, and the cheer was taken up from the left, while _crack, crack, crack_, rifles were being brought well into play. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
There are, true, a few tonal changes: the jokes are jokier, the touches of malice heavier, and she revels more obviously than before in the playfulness she brings to her performances. What Sarah Palin Doesn't Know
Even if you're not into playing the ponies, the setting is marvelous and it's a superb place for a picnic.
The layout of the enclosures, paddocks, and yards suggests an emphasis on stock-raising.
Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU. Archive 2009-12-01
Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
The 27 models on display in Washington, supplemented by paintings, drawings, sculpture and medallions, show the products of a rising social structure and new technique.
The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.
the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane
Conclusion TSGF test in patients with carcinosis play a very important pole in early diagnosis and the evaluation of therapy effect.
And Johnson has some advice for people aspiring to a comfortable living playing music: ‘I've set it in my mind that I will not jive anybody, and not be jived by anybody.’
It was nice to play a Wii game that wasn't full of bright greens and blues like another title featuring Mario. Epinions Recent Content for Home
I can't commend the players highly enough. The Sun
The woman herself lay in Epsom Cottage Hospital for four days without regaining consciousness.
In their houses, they play much at that most ingenious game which we call chess, or else at draughts. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
One in 20 changed their marital status to appeal to employers and five per cent falsely claimed to play golf. The Sun
And here the concept of the masque comes into play one final time.
Mewme was an old cat not like the playful little kitten that Alison had first encountered after her mother entered her life.
Like all those who have gone before us, may the revelation of Christ in our hearts compel us to lay down our lives before him in worship and adoration.
The players were top drawer. The Sun
There had been formerly on the pathways of Dardilly calvaries built by pious forebears; destroyed on order of the revolutionary proconsul of Lyon, the famous Fouché, the crosses lay in the grass. Archive 2008-03-09
Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude.
Many had played around the world, including in North America's National Hockey League.
Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
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Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
An increasing number of plays are now being signed.
She had wiggled through a tot-sized aperture in the alcove, and toddled over to a display of butterfly nets four feet away.
Zunun Kadir, the famous writer, playwright and fabulist, was the founder and the pioneer of the contemporary Uighur literature.
Taking up the whole stage included three guitarists, a bass player, one on drums, and a xylophonist, but this time no microphone in sight. FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
Each player has to mime the title of a movie, play or book.
Once all that is figured out, the most confusing factor in the equation must be pondered: playing time.
After laying down the melody, he proceeded to deconstruct it, pulling it into new shapes, twisting, fragmenting, yet never losing touch with his starting point.
It was also envisaged that they would play an advocacy and educational role on behalf of dementia sufferers throughout their area.
I don't think you're playing devil's advocate (a word every/filmer seems to want use) simply by making entirely senseless comparisons between films like Transformers and There Will Be Blood, and ranting on with points of view that even someone in defense of Transformers would never use. Things I Noticed While Watching 20 Minutes of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek | /Film
Application forms vary greatly in layout and length.
Egg-laying adults are especially active during bloom, a time period when insecticides should not be applied.
The 32-year-old actress spent a large proportion of the week playing cat and mouse with the press.
Instead, I was stuck in my little dorm room, answering the phone every time it rang in case it was Clay.
Your studies will suffer if you play too much football.
In itself, the letter will not stop fanaticism or allay age-old suspicions. Times, Sunday Times
Jake changes overnight from drippy layabout to high roller.
The poorer the soil and the older the lawn, the better will be the flower display, but most park lawns will contain self-heal, daisy, achillea, and cat's-ear.
The machine then applies a thin, even layer of cells to a microscope slide for examination.
It is not just getting used to the layout of new streets and kitchen and neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
Bishop Bernard Fellay revealed to ZENIT that the congregation told him to expect the publication of a statement issued "motu proprio" (on his own initiative) by Benedict XVI on the new structure of Ecclesia Dei before June 20. Fellay: Restructuring of Ecclesia Dei Imminent
We're trying to bring along several promising young football player.
The genus Barclaya is very seldom seen in association with Cryptocoryne species.
In that dingdong struggle both players were reaching great heights.
Close to the mangroves a big hawksbill turtle surfaced then lay motionless in the sunshine, no doubt sunbathing.
I was filming a music video in Central Kingston in the middle of general elections, when gunmen shot up a group of people on the corner playing ludo (snakes and ladders) and dominoes.
It's the closest part he's ever played to his real self, but the fact that he played it kind of nelly was a big risk. A Pirate's Life
RHP Brandon Lyon parlayed his surprising spring performance into the opening day closer job, supplanting RHP Greg Aquino.
Of course, you would expect it to be damp in those parts of the Highlands which the Camanachd Association holds as its fiefdom and indeed shinty has suffered in recent weeks with matches being cancelled due to unplayable pitches.
One thing's for sure: Rosen won't be trying to play the role of sole rainmaker.
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I'm a 25-year-old single bloke who plays international cricket and tours the world.
This all plays to the core competence of business attorneys.
This is the very definition of obstructionism: To delay a foregone conclusion for the sake of a petty protest.
Tennis or no tennis, we thought it was a perfectly enjoyable playdate. Times, Sunday Times
A 'the time we lay there it lowped and flang and capered and span like a teetotum, and whiles we could hear it skelloch as it span. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
Loman is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
Just like playing poker, it's all about bluffing. The Sun
His brother Jeremiah played a stormer at corner back and his accurate deliveries to his forwards were one of the highlights of his play.
Years of early art, pencil sketches, architectural renderings, magazine covers, newspaper clippings and personal photographs are also on display in the new gallery.
They were too cool to play an encore, or perhaps they had simply run out of songs. Times, Sunday Times
Private real estate trusts and partnerships may be smart plays for the long term
And they sing and play oboes and clarinets and violins and cellos and recorders on through the late afternoon in a warm, close auditorium.
Alice played a clear note on the flute, picked up the piccolo and tried it.
As far as traffic is concerned there are no delays at the moment.
In the research the hand was linked to the amputee's arm only by wire and actually lay on a nearby surface. Times, Sunday Times
Stahl Real Estate has applied to demolish two early 20th century buildings, but preservationists are firing back, arguing that the 190 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments, which sit between 64th and 65th streets near York Avenue, have played a vital role housing lower- and middle-class tenants for nearly a century. New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent
The fans certainly looked like they didn't have a care in the world as they lay in their hundreds sunning themselves on the grassy slopes surrounding the stadium in the hours before the game.
The club will always be bigger than any player or manager. The Sun
Earlier, in the B turret of the Achilles, there had been a temporary delay in the shell supply, and the gunhouse crews took the ready-use shells from their racks and fed them into the guns. Graf Spee
Which of us would want our lives to lay in ruin while those who are supposed to help are busy fighting over politics, power and property that does not belong to them? National Council of Churches
Her boss did not display any human traits.
I record my favourite songs onto blank tapes to play in the car and I normally do them by mood or genre.
‘Players in megabucks tournaments might have great ability in one area, whereas the players on tour have great ability in all areas,’ he says.
He fenced and boxed, but also played the cello, drew and had a deep appreciation of painting. PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
Christie knows that the continuity in playing personnel is a major strength and it's not one he plans to undermine with a cut-price garage sale.
The muscle layer needs to be sewn first.
They should all be stopped at the border by lines of claymore mines.
Ozone forms a protective layer between 12 and 30 miles above the Earth's surface.
Played three times for his native Northern Ireland. The Sun
A son of Israel has no gods whom he can libate," he said, playing with the water to hide his amazement, now greater than before. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
Rohitha bought several bunches of bananas and all the papaya fruits on display, while Pala bought a packet each of the green gram, sesame and ranawara.
The background music was provided by an accordion player.
Two rows behind the bench sits a sweet-faced junior college girl who just announced her intention to play for Oregon next year.
The hostage-takers Bowden spoke with expressed little regret at their seizure of the embassy, but most, like Mirdamadi, lamented the role they played in cementing the repressive rule of the clerics. Into the Den of Spies
Thereby, one-dimensional or multidimensional attribute of call events is displayed simultaneously through the invention.
Else Lynes had also brought along her active class to perform a display item before a most appreciative audience.
They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
That's because Olympic contests are played on a wider ice rink that opens up the game and gives the elite players space to be creative.
The political analyst Nikolai Petrov has described Mr. Putin's predicament using the chess term "zugzwang," in which a player sees only moves that will damage his position, and yet does not have the option of passing. NYT > Home Page
Meanwhile, all sorts of things that at one time or another were considered tests for artificial intelligence — playing chess, doing integrals, doing autonomous control — have been cracked in algorithmic ways. Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge
Whether Mr. Johnson was speaking metaphorically or just plain sillily, the fact he was expressing concern over adding many US military personnel to a small island displays concern for the overall impact on the Guamites … Guamians … Guamicans, hell just what does one call a resident of Guam? Think Progress » Rep. Johnson worries that the island of Guam will ‘tip over and capsize’ if U.S. troops relocate there.
Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie.
Of course, the kobold’s nonexistence is no reason to stop playing the game … Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
MacFadzean plays Richie Excellent, the young funster who wields unearned celebrity.
Polar Instruments has added a flex-rigid PCB design option to the Speedstack PCB layer-stackup design system. Electronicstalk - electronics industry news
For perciform fishes, the pectoral fin and tail are known to play important roles in propulsion and there is now a substantial literature on the function of these fins.
Solutia Inc is one of the world's leading providers of glass interlayers for laminated glass installations.
Information is relayed, where available, on where and how the objects were collected.
Springtime for Henry played Broadway in the early '30s and then again in the early '50s but became a laughingstock as Edward Everett Horton repeatedly barnstormed it.
Around the humerus, loose where once it had clung tightly, lay the twisted semi-circle of a priestly arm-ring. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
What is the point of using TV replays when you blatantly ignore what they show you? The Sun
Normally, at times likes these, Montgomerie's nerves are so taut that it would be possible to play a guitar solo on them.
Watching replays of her victory run induced nervousness. Times, Sunday Times
With no requalifying for the Ryder Cup, no wild-card picks and no apparent animosity, the only thing to talk about has been how poorly many of the team members are playing.
You can hook up two DisplayPort-compatible computers to a single monitor (and keyboard and mouse, obvs) without converters.
Urging fellow MPs to buy ozone-friendly products, she said failure to do so would leave the world without an ozone layer. ANC Daily News Briefing
They have filthy rich players with a distinct air of decadence about them. Times, Sunday Times
The shakuhachi is usually played solo or with the koto.
Although tensions existed between the army and the group, the president defused them by playing the politics of tribalism and regionalism, often targeting northerners as the source of the nation's problems.
That queasy feeling of disillusionment is a universal one says Schmidt; one that makes this particular play accessible for audiences on a very personal level.
This time he also plays his own twin brother. The Sun
Our main and imminent danger lay in the sudden dissolution of the ice, or in the capsizal of the berg. The Honour of the Flag
Bosses are keeping tight-lipped about WHO he will play. The Sun
It cannot be a good sign that the filmmakers are largely impervious to the insecurity and suffering of wide layers of the population.
I play golf for relaxation.
Zack and I spent last evening making modelling clay figures at the kitchen table.
But I doubt anything will compare to the light and clever touch she displays in CCF! Stella Gibbons's novel Cold Comfort Farm is a masterpiece
I really got into gambling in a big way, and ended up playing blackjack with some pretty scary people, but it was a riot.
Once on the storage server, a photograph can be displayed on any TV screen or monitor in the house via a simple video client.
It is easier to raise the devil than to lay him.
In the men's 4 x 200-metre relay team, he finished seventh.
The ensemble playing is lock tight, the soloists are eloquent; the seven pieces (five of them composed by group members) are literate and stimulating.
We've seen these kind of games played before in conference, where conferees drop provisions which they should not drop when they're both in the House and the Senate bills.
The upper layer of a plate is composed of either oceanic or continental crust or both.
There was no easy play from the left side. Tommy's Honour: The Extraordinary Story of Golf's Founding Father and Son
Which is a long-winded way of saying that human nature will play a part in deliberations. Times, Sunday Times
By having a strapping man say Katherina's words, it is not real and not naturalistic, so it gives the audience a jolt and makes the play double edged.
Mobile Internet services are part of this commitment and are forecast to play an important role in the future of mobile multimedia.
The opening Thursday of SugarHouse Casino, Pennsylvania's 10th casino, comes after years of community protests and delays.
Over 300,000 visitors a year enjoy the waterfalls, flower gardens, exotic birds, animal life and the children's playground.
The railway had made a considerable capital outlay on new rolling stock.
But neither of those initiatives, expensive as they are, approach the civic munificence displayed by the Federal Reserve. The Fed's Cash Machine
She said the new playground would help give the children greater independence.
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Henry Ward Beecher
Beckham is a beaut, probably England's best player, but as captain?
He lacks any backbone, as becomes apparent during the toe-curling dinner party that forms the play.
I think that while full-on female displays will evoke an easy and instinctual hormone rush -- which, as I said, might be a good complement to a melee brawl -- most intelligent people will agree that some sort of subtlety in sexuality is appealing on more levels simultaneously. Archive 2008-02-01
The two merchants didn't look entirely pleased to have the players mooching off of their business, but it was obvious to the eyes of an outsider that the music was actually attracting customers.
The arcade is an indoor playground, a room full of games and toys, and people playing them.
Several chapters cover the basics of clean room technology, e.g., lithography, etching and layer deposition techniques.
I was getting really determined that I would hit the ball before we stopped playing.
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The gorillas 'behaviour has strong similarities to the children's game tag, but is perhaps more like a playful exchange of punches that must be well-judged to ensure it does not escalate into a more serious fight. Gorillas learn about injustice and revenge by playing tag
She plays Silly, a Nova Scotian seasprite of girl who is the subject of a marine tragedy of, er, Titanic proportions.
An employee or player likes to know when he/she walks into the manager's office that whatever is discussed between them is in confidence.
When equipped with the full unit, a patient sees a display of phosphenes, which looks, as the Wall Street Journal put it, like ‘the light-bulb array of a stadium scoreboard,’ and which approximates - very roughly - the outlines of objects.
Since breads play a major role in Indian cuisine, the restaurant imported mud from specific regions of India to make the tandoor, influencing the taste to some extent.
Amid fireworks, a color guard and torrents of cheers, 62 former Redskins were introduced on Sunday night at FedEx Field, from Carl Kammerer, who played in 1963, to Darnerien McCants, who retired in 2004. Shanahan, McNabb are helping the Redskins recapture their past
The Warriors lost a battle despite outshooting and mostly outplaying their opponents.
From Australia and New Zealand to Malaysia and India — in text and film and music and image — this booklet is a snapshot of the Asian commons. ACIA: Furthering the Commons in Asia
Compare and contrast the two main characters in the play.
No right-thinking person wants to downplay this problem or its implications.
NEWPORT, Wales — Phil Mickelson came to the defense of Rory McIlroy on Wednesday, calling him one of the classiest players in golf and his desire to play Tiger Woods is the goal of every player who wants to beat the best. Phil Mickelson Addresses Tiger Woods Feud
The men and women did not differ in the duration of their ideal scripts for foreplay.
Studies in the past showed that subsoiling clay soil in the spring does not improve cotton harvests.
Dozens of flights from the international airport were delayed as part of the protests and baggage-handling staff held a go-slow.
you and your fellow misogynistic homophobes masquerading as "traditionalist anglicans" have played out the string. Breakaway Fort Worth group responds to Episcopal Church lawsuit | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
MI5, Britain's internal security and counter-espionage agency, is to play a greater role in informing the UK public about terror alerts.
That night I lay flat on my back and stared up at the ceiling.
Expertly based on simple, smooth, sculptural lines, exploring colour by layering and integrating silk and viscose, adding another textural element to her work.
Once they'd been on the wrong end of a dressing-down in front of the other players they didn't ever want it to happen again.
By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
If you delay child-bearing until your mid-twenties or your early thirties, you are far more likely to have a good job, educational qualifications and a stable relationship.
She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
The acting was hammy, the jokes were forced, and the entire thing came across like a high school play - actors overdoing everything in cringe-worthy performances.
Day said: ‘It's an honour to play here and if you can score a try it's even better.’
It was this conviction that made the intrigues at OKH, the disregard and "mislaying" of unwelcome instructions, such a personal affair in the first summer's campaign. Barbarossa
There are two slightly contradictory factors in play. Times, Sunday Times
In this lesson, learn the basics of playing barre chords.
We were still playing at war — dropping leaflets instead of bombs.
He lays it down on the workbench and stands there, staring out the window.
The name is dowitcher. article in Monday's Calendar section about the Coachella Music and Arts Festival said Paul McCartney played a portion of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady. Undefined
Although he showed by laying down some bunts he knows what he can do with his speed, he hasn't mastered the tactic and bunts the ball foul or into outs.
Wrapped in slick vocal layering and multi-tracked veneer, the disc is more upbeat than previous records and features an old-country twang.
Later that night, after he had carried her inside, he lay next to her on the hearthrug, listening to her breathe, not quite believing what had just happened.

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