Below you will find example sentences with "lay eggs". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Lay Eggs in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: lay
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 25.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "lay eggs" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 25.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as amniotes can lay eggs on dry, began to lay eggs, water, female and nest stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with easter eggs, lay off, lay down, lay off and lay down, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with lay eggs
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
They don't lay eggs. (5 words)
However, unlike regular birds, Turians give birth to live young and do not lay eggs. (15 words)
AOL: One final question, from Pat, in Rockford, Illinois; “Does the Easter Bunny actually lay eggs? (16 words)
In some cases, the larvae can develop on normal Drosophila lab medium, but the female will not lay eggs; for these it is often simply a matter of putting in a small piece of the natural host to receive the eggs. (41 words)
The family thought they had purchased a male chameleon, but on Sunday (Nov. 1), they quickly realized that was not the case when Elvis — or Elvira, as she became to be known — began to lay eggs. (36 words)
Amniotic eggs, however, have internal membranes that allow the developing embryo to breathe but keep water in. Hence, amniotes can lay eggs on dry land, while amphibians generally need to lay their eggs in water. (35 words)
AOL: One final question, from Pat, in Rockford, Illinois; “Does the Easter Bunny actually lay eggs? (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
Amniotic eggs, however, have internal membranes that allow the developing embryo to breathe but keep water in. Hence, amniotes can lay eggs on dry land, while amphibians generally need to lay their eggs in water.
Tettigoniids have either sickle-shaped ovipositors which typically lay eggs in dead or living plant matter, or uniform elongated ovipositors which lay eggs in grass stems.
Female ticks will lay eggs in a "nest" which is a gelatinous glob of sticky eggs that resemble dark brown caviar.
Seven pairs of birds are currently nesting at a main site in Broomhill, Man. One pair has laid four eggs, and the rest are expected to lay eggs within the week, Froese said.
In some cases, the larvae can develop on normal Drosophila lab medium, but the female will not lay eggs; for these it is often simply a matter of putting in a small piece of the natural host to receive the eggs.
Most lay eggs that hatch as what look like miniature adults, but all scorpions and a few species of mites keep the eggs inside their bodies until the young emerge.
Primitive birds and many non-avialan dinosaurs often lay eggs in communal nests, with males primarily incubating the eggs.
That is, monotremes lay eggs, and the eggs are similar to those of reptiles in that only part of the egg divides as it develops.
The female does not care for the eggs or the chicks but moves on to lay eggs in the nests of several other males.
The male often tempts other females to lay eggs in his nest, and as many as 1,946 citation eggs have been counted in a single nest.
Horn sharks don’t birth their young, they lay eggs that are in a corkscrew shape that look almost glass-like but are rubbery in texture.
Scabies is a contagious skin condition caused by tiny mites that burrow into the skin and lay eggs.
They don't lay eggs.
Worldwide, more than six billion male chicks are killed every year because they cannot lay eggs or get fat enough to be sold for meat, according to the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.
You can discern an electric eel from a true eel by its missing dorsal fin, its ability to breathe air and its tendency to lay eggs in freshwater rather than saltwater.
The beetles lay eggs which eat into the outer layers of the tree after they hatch, starving the tree of water and nutrients until it dies.
These irritating, blood-sucking insects lay eggs and hatch in standing water, and boy can they give you the blues.
AOL: One final question, from Pat, in Rockford, Illinois; “Does the Easter Bunny actually lay eggs?
However, unlike regular birds, Turians give birth to live young and do not lay eggs.
The family thought they had purchased a male chameleon, but on Sunday (Nov. 1), they quickly realized that was not the case when Elvis — or Elvira, as she became to be known — began to lay eggs.