How to Use lay/put (something) to rest in a Sentence

lay/put (something) to rest

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• There's a world of this character's past that needs to be put to rest.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
• After Caitlin Clark wins player of the year, can the debate be put to rest?
  — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
• However, once the crew got out on the water, those fears were put to rest.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2024
• The remains of 30 more victims will be put to rest there on Tuesday.
  — Eldar Emric, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• That idea is soon put to rest as heavy guns blaze on the ground ahead of them with surprising rapid fire.
  — David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2024
• His booming voice put to rest rumors that age had brought a tremble to it.
  — Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Those fears have been put to rest as the sport’s initial season rolls past its midpoint.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
• The message was clear: There's room in theaters for both, and any notion of a feud between the two movies should be put to rest.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 20 July 2023
• The debate around the importance of handwriting was put to rest a while back.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 18 June 2024
• However, all of those questions can now be put to rest.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 26 July 2024
• But none of it, not the settlements or the court decisions, fully put to rest the question of blame.
  — Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The 2020 election put to rest the comforting fable that Trump’s election was a fluke.
  — Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2021
• The concern and the wait can finally be put to rest — entirely.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
• The cardboard beds that went viral at the 2020 Olympics were not put to rest at this summer’s games in Paris, much to the chagrin of some competitors.
  — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
• That should put to rest the idea that workers need to be monitored at all times in order to be productive.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 6 July 2023
• Yet on Monday those theories too appeared to be put to rest.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2023
• If there were doubts about Donald Trump’s decision to skip the first debate, they have likely been put to rest tonight.
  — Tim Hanrahan, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
• The Capitol insurrection should have put to rest the notion that Trump has the best interests of cops at heart.
  — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2024
• Once the fire is out and life-saving measures are put to rest, people can begin to assess how to rebuild.
  — Dan Lambe, Treehugger, 28 Aug. 2023
• For Miller, the news that her parents had been murdered – that she had been lost and then found – put to rest many questions, while also raising new ones.
  — Cristina Corbin, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• Concerns about dogs chewing up their beds can be put to rest, as these beds are built to withstand their playful nature.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
• Advertisement That’s the far more important question to put to rest, so please do so.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• However, the competition hasn't been put to rest just yet.
  — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2024
• 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
• But all of her worries were put to rest when her first solo album Innocence of Broken Love was released and the song of the same title became a hit.
  — Billboard China, Billboard, 13 July 2023
• 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
• Some of these arguments, such as the idea that the island's indigenous people had traveled there from South America, have since been put to rest.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2024
• The federal government’s own guidance should put to rest their concerns.
  — Tony Coelho, STAT, 20 July 2023
• Just a short time after the rumor began circulating online and picked up steam, it has seemingly been put to rest.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• The Oscar winner, 69, put to rest speculation about a return more than a year after news of his departure broke.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024