Sentence examples for lay arms from inspiring English sources

She made a pallet of old coats and garment bags, and lay, arms behind her head, listening to air sieving in at the eaves, the wood-on-wood sound of the roof trusses.

"Asking us to lay down arms is a joke".

Neither side looks set to lay down arms anytime soon.

Why would the jihadi militia Jabhat al-Nusra lay down arms?

But the ethnic armies want a political settlement before they will lay down arms for good.

They got to watch their adversaries lay down arms and battle flags.

But Eta's decision to lay down arms won approval in the Garín.

"Without the threat of being disarmed by force, they'll never lay down arms.

Brahimi said he faced an almost impossible mission to persuade both sides to lay down arms.

One rebel faction has already warned it will not lay down arms.

Yet he is also a firm adherent of encouraging "reconcilable" Taliban to lay down arms.