How do you use Laying in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like birth, plus the exact meaning.
Laying meaning
present participle and gerund of lay
Synonyms of Laying
Example sentences (20)
Later today, I will be laying before this Honourable House the Child Day Care Allowance Amendment Regulations 2023.
Charlotte Flair was at ringside and did play into the action, laying out Bayley at ringside causing a distraction.
Katie unpacks each one of Harry’s implicit biases and prejudices, laying them out in front of him without reserve.
During the Service the congregation will proceed to the war memorial in the church grounds for the laying of wreaths.
If your pen is cold and damp, your birds will be putting more energy into keeping warm and less into laying eggs.
Didn't get any clear chances but showed how unselfish he can be when laying it off for Anderson who saw his shot saved.
In February, he faced a backlash for laying into ‘savages’, ‘scroats’ and ‘scumbags,’ blighting Stoke-on-Trent.
It's hard to conceive having to defend yourself from someone laying on the ground but that's exactly what is happening.
Managers are gonna buy into some flim-flam artist's promises of great code with few developers, laying off tons of them.
I’m not really sure what that means in this context, laying my life down for an automobile, but I’ll do it.
Although Amazon is currently laying off 18,000 employees, AWS isn’t expected to see many employee layoffs.
He said two of the victims, all believed to be from Honduras, were found laying over two children inside.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Rizal Park, in Manila, Philippines on Mar 2, 2023.
He didn’t understand the encounter since the heckler sat through the film before really laying into it.
Pakosta also gave a concrete example of how EU law needs to be adopted purposefully and not by laying random burdens on people.
In the clip, Georgia is seen comfortably laying on her bed, which has powder pink sheets and pillows.
Kierna Mayo, former editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine, says it is like he was laying a trail of breadcrumbs for someone to track.
Commenting on 'MuMufication', Daisy said: "We will be laying 20 bricks this year, each with 23 grams of the ashes of the deceased.
However, there are a bunch of classic Commodore parts in there, salvaged from several broken machines that Celso had laying around.
I can't imagine what it would be like to see a doll's head laying in the sand, and then see it sprout legs and start walking around.
Common combinations with laying
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- laying off 27×
- laying the 22×
- laying on 18×
- laying down 16×
- laying out 15×
- is laying 13×
- and laying 9×
- after laying 6×
- wreath laying 6×
- was laying 6×
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About these examples
The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word laying. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.