How to Use lie off in a Sentence

lie off

verb

• Yet one of the first things Iger did was lay off 7,000 workers.
  — Vulture, 12 July 2023
• The ships are now lying off Agnadores awaiting to shoot over the hills into the city.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2023
• The trade deadline is past, but the sprint to the finish still lies off on the horizon of September.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 23 Mar. 2023
• Maybe investors will be content with 5% yields this time around and lay off the stock market for a while.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2023
• Then Raso drilled home a second in the 70th after Emily van Egmond’s lay off in the box.
  — James Robson, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• According to the job description, the offshore platform will lie off the coast of Brownsville, Texas.
  — Popular Mechanics, 18 June 2020
• Many are believed to lie off San Diego and will be the focus of searches in upcoming years.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
• The tough-love bandmate who tells her to stop chewing out her fellow musicians and lay off the booze.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2023
• But things remained dicey; LaFleur had to close every store and showroom and lay off all store workers.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
• In many ways, this sums up the magic of the island of Tasmania, which lies off Australia’s southern coast.
  — Everett Potter, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Spieth and Thomas were 2 down with 2 to go, their backs against the wall and the situation was made worse by an amazingly bad lie off the 17th green.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2021
• These conditions forced the company to cut back on spending and lay off about 20 percent of its staff.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• Acemoglu: Firms often lay off less-skilled workers and try to increase the employment of skilled workers.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Seeing Trout lay off, Ohtani opted for his fastball to work into a more favorable count.
  — Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• Fairfax plans to close the school in January and lay off staff, according to a company statement.
  — Mike Reicher, ProPublica, 4 Dec. 2023
• Then mortgage demand dropped off faster than lenders could cut costs and lay off staff, leading to losses across the industry, according to MBA.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 10 Apr. 2023
• As a cost-cutting move, some streaming services also lay off the writing staff once filming begins.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2023
• Related Stories Peltz dropped that first run at Disney after Iger pledged to slash costs and lay off thousands of employees.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2024
• Oshima lies off the western coast of the northernmost main island of Hokkaido.
  — Kim Tong-Hyung, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• The union said earlier this month it was angered by a company proposal that would close breweries and lay off workers.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
• Many business owners began this year bracing for the worst — expecting to slash budgets and lay off employees.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• That’s because in most downturns, as Americans start to pull back on spending, restaurants, hotels and retailers lay off waves of workers.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2023
• That’s because in most downturns, as Americans start to pull back on spending, restaurants, hotels, and retailers lay off waves of workers.
  — Christopher Rugaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2023
• Demand waned last year as consumers pulled back on spending and several freight brokers have been forced to also reduce spending and lay off workers.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• Enrollment dropped because of long lockdowns, and child care centers were forced to slash expenses and furlough or lay off employees.
  — Valeria Olivares, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
• Businesses would cut back on investment and lay off workers, Strain predicted, and consumers would pull back on spending.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
• Virgin Orbit is out of money and will suspend operations and lay off most employees.
  — Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 31 Mar. 2023
• As a result, their stocks have declined as such companies lay off significant numbers of workers.
  — Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• But the ultimate impact of the strike depends on things like how long the strike lasts, if companies lay off workers at other plants, how many workers walk off their jobs and how long the unions and companies take to negotiate a deal.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
• Companies lay off workers and slow hiring, unemployment rises and wage growth stalls.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024