How to Use lay in in a Sentence

lay in

verb

• In 1902, the founding stone was laid in sight of the shores of the Beagle Channel.
  — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• The building blocks for making it to the NFL are laid in high school.
  — Ashley Mahoney, Axios, 16 Sep. 2024
• Just be prepared for all your pets to want to lay in front of it.
  — Kat Romero, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
• The foundational bricks were meant to be laid in the first half of 2023.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 19 June 2023
• Throughout the day the bodies of the newly recovered were laid in a row in the car park.
  — Stuart Ramsay, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2023
• The cornerstone, laid in 1949, also has a long crack in it.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2024
• Bent sections of a black metal fence laid in a heap on the front lawn on Saturday at the scene of the crash.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 2 July 2023
• And that somewhere happened two decades back, when the foundation was laid in the youth of its founder.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 12 May 2024
• Look for a darker shade of beige, but don't be afraid of a pale spot—this is just where the squash was laying in the garden.
  — Carrie Honaker, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2023
• The first two bottles, recovered from a pit beneath a brick floor laid in the 1770s, were dark green and made of glass.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 June 2024
• The third chick, born Thursday and not yet old enough to wander, laid in the nest beneath one of its parents.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• What is clear is that the project rolled along in the following years, and the foundation was laid in summer 2017.
  — Nimet Kirac, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• The large surface area and 11-inch leg height give you the freedom to lay in bed without needing to place the desk on top of your legs.
  — Popular Science, 23 Feb. 2021
• By May 29, that season was laid in ruins, swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the Milwaukee Bucks.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2023
• For Caroline Spiegel, the answer may lay in the bedroom.
  — Janae McKenzie, Glamour, 14 June 2022
• Eggs laid in the water tend to be smaller and more spherical.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• Officers, who went to the scene about 9:15 p.m. after getting a call about a person laying in the road, said the man died at the scene.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 27 Feb. 2024
• Romeo loved to lay in front of an electric heater, drink out of the bathtub faucet, and to get occasional treats.
  — cleveland, 26 May 2022
• Hannah says this feature works great, and can see her dog laying in the crate even when the entire room is pitch black.
  — Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
• And of course, Jones was there to lay in the final dagger with eight seconds remaining.
  — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
• The solution laid in the deep hoots of this common North American bird.
  — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 16 Aug. 2023
• Its streets were still paved with bricks that the newly free had laid in intricate patterns.
  — Dara T. Mathis, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• Hudson laid in an oversized bed with her friend day after day.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2023
• In the clip, which is just a minute long, her wife Kirsten French is seen laying in a hospice care bed as a man holds up a phone for her to FaceTime.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
• The late queen will lay in rest in Scotland before her body is expected to be flown back to London.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• Davis said her son was laying in bed when the freak accident happened.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
• Civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who died in 2005, is the only woman to lay in honor in the rotunda.
  — Susan Ferrechio, Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2020
• One night in 2013, while Smith was laying in bed pondering his next venture, the idea for Cotopaxi came to him.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• The boys were almost home when a man wearing a mask and brandishing a revolver stepped out of the darkness and ordered them to lay in a ditch.
  — Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
• Wood, stone, tile and linoleum floors were laid in angular patterns such as chevron, herringbone, checkered and parquet.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024