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 speculation was seemingly put to rest when a remix of the song featuring Lorde was released, with the singers publicly talking out their issues.
    Violet Goldstone, WWD, 25 Sep. 2024

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