Sentence examples for a lay day from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a lay day" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of shipping or construction to refer to a day when work is not done, often due to waiting for materials or weather conditions.
Example: "The ship was delayed due to bad weather, resulting in a lay day that pushed back our schedule."
Alternatives: "a downtime" or "a non-working day".

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Minutes after the postponement, the race committee announced that the two teams had agreed to try to get in Race 4 on Wednesday, which had been scheduled as a lay day.

On Friday, a lay day during the Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal, Slater completed 1.5 rotations in the air -- a trick never accomplished before on a surfboard.

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The revised schedule eliminates Friday's proposed lay day.

After protests Tuesday evening halted the furtively organized funeral of Erich Priebke, a former SS captain associated with a World War II massacre, the former Nazi's corpse lay Wednesday at a military airport near the capital, waiting for a resolution.

"This is a business dispute and everything she said about me is a lie," Day said outside the courthouse.

He was looking forward to graduating from a lay chaplain certification program that day which would allow him to minister to New York's most vulnerable residents.

Ann Romney, however, saw how he had "served as a pastor for a congregation and for groups of congregations," a reference to his work as a lay bishop of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

There are those of us who don't feel they deserve to be happy, and those of us who are living a lie every day.

Anglers are allowed to fish two of three days with a lay-day rule in effect.

"A cheerleader lies in day bed listening to the beat of her conch shell, a man becomes transfixed by a swirling blossom.

In front of our house last week a roadster lay dying from Friday noon to Tuesday morning.

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