Sentence examples for instead of laid from inspiring English sources

Analysts in Russia, one of Syria's staunchest allies, say that as rebels try to encircle Damascus and cut off escape routes to the coast, the mood in the palace is one of panic, evinced by the erratic use of weapons: Scud missiles better used against an army than an insurgency, naval mines dropped from the air instead of laid at sea.

Lighter shades and colors may naturally look more casual, but exercise caution in selecting a pastel blazer since many may end up looking tacky instead of laid back.

Unlike most nonmammalian animals, scorpions are viviparous, giving birth to live young instead of laying eggs.

Instead of laying off workers, German companies cut back their hours.

We're going to leverage our innovative people instead of laying them off".

Three hundred years later, instead of laying on hands, Queen Elizabeth II sips tea in Glasgow.

Well, it's because one of the characters, Tsezar Markovich, worked in an office instead of laying bricks.

Instead of laying the tesserae one by one directly onto the mortar, another method was sometimes used.

Such euphemisms remind me of "rightsizing" instead of "downsizing," and "furloughing" workers instead of "laying them off".

So instead of laying up safely in the fairway from the bunker, Woods went for the green.

But instead of laying down their arms in Swat, the Taliban took over the adjacent district of Buner.The army has now taken them on.