How to Use lay (someone) to rest in a Sentence

lay (someone) to rest

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  • Britain is now ready to lay to rest its longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, with billions thought to be watching around the globe to mark the end of a reign that defined an era.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • And Kappelman and colleagues believe their findings will lay to rest what's long been a contentious argument over how and where Lucy lived.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2016
  • But in the rough world of politics, opponents are not about to let personal embarrassments lay to rest.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The weddings episode will lay to rest all of the speculation surrounding these couples, and fans will get even more answers when the show’s first-ever live reunion airs two days later.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Family and friends gathered Thursday to lay to rest a little North Carolina boy who always had a smile on his face -- as the motive for his senseless murder over the weekend remained a mystery.
    — Fox News, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Jones, for one, hopes the new study will lay to rest the pernicious idea of a racial basis for genetic differences among humans, and the use of those differences to justify discrimination.
    — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The decisions of voters like Mr. Mohler, discernible in surveys and voiced in interviews, did not necessarily lay to rest concerns about the ability of the election system to withstand the new pressures unleashed upon it by Mr. Trump.
    — Blake Hounshell, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Witt presented his umbrella for examination, hoping to lay to rest two conspiracy theories that tied him to the murder of the President.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2020
  • The two countries, scarred and still entangled in an uneasy relationship, agree on very little. President Emmanuel Macron of France visited recently in an attempt to lay to rest some of the trauma of colonialism and separation.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022

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