Sentence examples for laid face from inspiring English sources

Then the dummy is laid face up on the table so that declarer may select his final contract.

In "Are Jews Human?" he simply exhibits an opened book, maybe from the 1920's, laid face down to display that title on its spine.

That light you swam so hard away from still burns, like a star over a desert or atop a tree in a living room where a son's photos have been laid face down for the holiday.

Memory Match Game is a card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on a surface.

Did you know that according to British etiquette cutlery has to be laid face up (fork prongs in the air), but in France it's vice versa - prongs down.

But while these details – the antibacterial wipes, the jigsaws, the wrists laid "face up like dead fish" – are striking, all the poems were written in retrospect, after Dan left psychiatric care.

"And Clemence is mortified," cried John Motson, as the Spurs goalkeeper laid face-down in the muddy goalmouth in front of the Stretford End.

After some deliberation, Tony and Scott manage to slip the sample under the elastic cord used to secure the box, making sure the precious microbial mat is laid face-down, protecting fragile filaments during the long, turbulent trip to the surface.

Three cards the flop are then laid face-up in the middle of the table.

To measure the impact of such verbal gymnastics on cognition, Norton, Sommers, and colleagues employed a modified version of the children's game "Guess Who?" Cards depicting people of different genders and races are laid face-up on a table, and one player mentally selects a card.

Classically, when spore prints are to be produced from mushrooms with open hymenia such as for species identification or when individual basidiospores are to be isolated for germination, mushroom caps are laid facing down onto a surface (see "Introduction" section), in compliance to their orientation in nature.