Sentence examples for lay it out for from inspiring English sources

When Woodrow Wilson needed help understanding the science of military preparedness, he asked the Academy's eminent scientists to lay it out for him.

"I said to Carol, 'I can't see the larger picture, but when you lay it out for me, I can make it happen,' so why would I fight against that?

As much as this may look like your typical instance of a privileged American student's being humbled by real poverty and suffering -- and in some ways it is -- Vida doesn't lay it out for us as such.

It is a kind of portrait of a nation ("you could lay it out for a national picnic," he says) and, like a lot of Perry's work, teeters at the junction between earnestness and satire.

The press would get it as they requested it, but I would get their handwritten last meal request about three days ahead of time and I'd take it to my captain and say, "Well, what do you want me to do?" And she'd lay it out for me.

"A senior member of the administration needs to go to Pakistan and take the intelligence we have on Al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Haqqani network inside of Pakistan and lay it out for their most senior leadership," said the retired commander, Lt. Gen. David W. Barno.

But we're going to lay it out there, for us and for them.

I was able to lay it out there for him".

"I was able to make eye contact early on and kind of lay it out there for him".

I'm trying to just lay it out there for it to be easily received.

Lay it out flat in readiness for folding.