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Example Sentences
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No clear order or layout has been discovered with most burials laid in a traditional east-west position.
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Streets ordinarily packed with tourists lay eerily quiet.
The practice sees an animal-based scent trail laid for dogs to follow rather than a real animal, while a group of hunters follows the pack on horseback.
From BBC
Anne and Ross were both stationed at Tundergarth, in the field where the plane's nose cone lay.
From BBC
So many people are entering the gig economy that it is putting downward pressure on wages, as people laid off from other industries or unable to find full-time work compete for pay.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
