Below you will find example sentences with "laid down". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Laid Down in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: laid
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 29.3 words

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 7 start, 11 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "laid down" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.3 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as affecting government laid down policy while, calm and laid down an unplayable, way, police and wrong stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with shut down, knocked down, sat down and laid off, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with laid down

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

And she is keen to get her time with Colin laid down on paper and presented from her perspective. (19 words)

He laid down the legal guidelines of baseball in its infancy, guiding the game the remainder of its days. (19 words)

If talks break down, Mr. Johnson says, Britain can trade under the terms laid down at the World Trade Organization. (20 words)

During the course of the evening, Zerbin laid down under a blanket with the young woman and put his hand on her hip, then "down the front of her pants to her pubic area and rubbed her genitals through her underwear," Gouge wrote. (43 words)

After James Jamerson laid down all those funky bass lines in Detroit, helping to create 56 No. 1 R&B hits and 23 No. 1 pop hits, making Motown into a cultural juggernaut, popular music never has been the same. (40 words)

Police spikes were laid down on a road near the Woden Westfield, but Higgins allegedly swerved into incoming traffic to avoid them before driving the wrong way down a one-way street, forcing other vehicles to mount the gutter. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

During the course of the evening, Zerbin laid down under a blanket with the young woman and put his hand on her hip, then "down the front of her pants to her pubic area and rubbed her genitals through her underwear," Gouge wrote.

Police spikes were laid down on a road near the Woden Westfield, but Higgins allegedly swerved into incoming traffic to avoid them before driving the wrong way down a one-way street, forcing other vehicles to mount the gutter.

The senior remained calm and laid down an unplayable dribbler down the first-base line, bringing home RCS’ second run of the game.

Four Harare city councillors were arrested, with police hunting down a fifth, on charges of public abuse of office involving sales of council land – without following laid down procedures.

If talks break down, Mr. Johnson says, Britain can trade under the terms laid down at the World Trade Organization.

With just over 12 minutes remaining in the third period, Tony DeAngelo took exception to a hit Kyle Okposo laid down on one of DeAngelo’s teammates and threw down his gloves.

You could tap your foot to the comedic beats laid down as Emily amusedly watches Stephanie attempt to properly comport herself in Emily’s upside down world.

According to the revised flow of funds procedure laid down by the Finance Ministry, expenditure for centrally sponsored schemes have to be made from a single account, where the Centre and the state deposit their respective shares.

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After James Jamerson laid down all those funky bass lines in Detroit, helping to create 56 No. 1 R&B hits and 23 No. 1 pop hits, making Motown into a cultural juggernaut, popular music never has been the same.

A meeting of the West Watten smallholders was held in West Watten School to consider the "unfair conditions being laid down by the Board of Agriculture in the smallholding scheme for ex-servicemen".

And she is keen to get her time with Colin laid down on paper and presented from her perspective.

But make no mistake about it: that idea is a myth, an empty threat constantly laid down by millionaires across the country looking for a way to discourage state lawmakers from raising their taxes.

Captain Gupta, who joined the Indian Army in 2015 and was commissioned in 2018, laid down his life while fighting with the terrorists in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Wednesday.

Delmar Eversole, 83, of Ripley, Ohio, laid down his working tools and passed away peacefully in his home on November 30, 2022.

Don’t get us wrong, there was nothing violent or over the top about it, but markers were being laid down, battle lines drawn.

He eventually saw an opportunity to escape when his guard got sick and laid down on the floor with severe abdominal cramps and passed out from the pain.

He laid down the legal guidelines of baseball in its infancy, guiding the game the remainder of its days.

He said the action of the governor-elect amounts to jumping the gun by issuing directive on a matter affecting government laid down policy while the incumbent is yet to run his full term.

Importantly, Nuleaf Naturals is cGMP certified which means they follow the current Good Manufacturing Practices laid down by the US Food and Drug Administration.

In 2017, the top court laid down guidelines for itself and the high courts to govern the exercise of designating lawyers as seniors.

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