Sentence examples for a kind of lay from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a kind of lay" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing types or categories of something, but it is not commonly recognized.
Example: "The song has a kind of lay that makes it easy to sing along."
Alternatives: "a type of song" or "a sort of tune".

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A sanyasin, a kind of lay nun, with a gift for rabble-rousing, she was in 2003 elected the BJP's chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, a large central state.

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To keep it would be a kind of lie.

But this seemed to me to be a kind of lie.

To accept the gift while rejecting its meaning is to tell a kind of lie.

To deliberately, albeit passively, undermine the work you agreed to do is to tell your employer a kind of lie.

To arrange this ludicrous, if benign, contrivance to deliberately fool the clientele is a kind of lie and hence unethical.

Y). lives nonchronologically, having sequestered himself from the passing of time and actual interaction with people: "Chronological living is a kind of lie.

Perhaps you feel uneasy because your contributing to a Democrat is a kind of lie, an expression of admiration for someone you actually disdain.

It's a kind of lie about what equality means – that we should think about creating a means of escape and neglect the rest.

As for the sense of adventure, the weather and all that, he saw now that it had been a fantasy, a kind of lie.

To do so is to tell a kind of lie to patients, who reasonably assume that their care meets hospital standards.

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