laying down

Example Sentences

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“These organizations are not pursuing any strategic objective that they are happy to pursue through democratic means after laying down their weapons,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

What comes after silicon microchips—pocket quantum computers, say, or transistors only an atom thick—could be as strange to people living today as microchips were in the 1960s, when Gordon Moore started laying down the law.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

On paper, it sounds like infrastructure-building, an ambitious laying down of the gauntlet.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

And if Dupont can swim rings around Doris and co again on Thursday, Ireland will struggle to stop France from laying down an early marker.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

‘I have received this,’ said Denethor, and laying down his rod he lifted from his lap the thing that he had been gazing at.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien