Sentence examples for been laid up from inspiring English sources

Filipino seamen, who man the world's merchant fleets, have not been laid off even if their ships have been laid up, so valuable is their reputation for dependability.

In reaching over to pick up a novel from her bedside table, she wrenched her back and has been laid up for ten days.

But while Cunard has managed to keep the legacy of transatlantic travel alive with its Queen Mary 2, the flagship of the United States Lines has been laid up in South Philadelphia since 1996.

Mr. Heller told a story of his father, who he said had been laid up after back surgery and dependent on assistance for the six to eight weeks he was out of work.

Built in 1973 to pull trawler nets off the coast of Canada, it had been chartered as a US military training vessel, but for the previous 18 months it had been laid up and colonised by rats.

A world-traveling photographer, he has been laid up in his two-room apartment for six weeks with his leg in a cast -- and he just can't resist peeking into his neighbor's windows.

They've been laying up all winter under the ice".

Clearly, the jihadists had been laying up supplies for their defense of Gao or for its recapture from the French.

Clearly, the jihadists had been laying up supplies for their defence of Gao – or for its recapture from the French.

Cassandro was laid up for months.

I was laid up for four or five months".