lay it out for
Example Sentences
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“My father wanted to throw the past into the abyss and let it sink while I needed to dig it up and lay it out for discussion,” she writes.
From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2022
“Why take another person’s weakness or flaw and lay it out for all to see?”
From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019
“We have to lay it out for ourselves and lay it for the people and see where it leads us.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2019
The minute a moral quandary begins to take shape in the viewer’s mind, up pops Greenwood to lay it out for us, usually in the form of rhymed military slang.
From Slate • May 14, 2015
“The weak points of every iron monster, schematics of every palace in every region of Alke—you name it, she can lay it out for you, no trouble at all.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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