well-laid

Example Sentences

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Here’s how one of the well-laid plans of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went blooey.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2025

As Liverpool's men celebrated lifting the Premier League trophy just days before - Arne Slot triumphing in the glory of Jurgen Klopp's well-laid foundations - similarities could be seen in Bompastor and Hayes.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2025

“It is not enough to cultivate vegetables with care. You have the duty to arrange them according to their colors, and to frame them with flowers, so they appear like a well-laid table.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023

Of course, any of these well-laid plans could change in an instant due to outbreaks, drastically reduced infection rates or a long-shot vaccine breakthrough.

From Washington Times • Aug. 26, 2020

They found a broad path, paved with hewn stones, now winding upward, now climbing in short flights of well-laid steps.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien