Sentence examples for lay small from inspiring English sources

The majority of tortoise species lay small clutches of eggs, typically fewer than 20, and many small-bodied species lay fewer than 5.

More than half of the members' birds are bantams, smaller heirloom-breed chickens that lay small eggs and are not raised for meat, suggesting that many or most of the organization's members may now be amateurs.

Can it get any worse than this?" On a trestle table lay small piles of a leaflet credited to the "Bureau of Public Secrets", which quoted 69-year-old Kalle Lasn, the editor of the Canada-based countercultural magazine Adbusters: "We are not just inspired by what happened in the Arab spring recently.

Can it get any worse than this?" On a table lay small piles of a leaflet credited to the "Bureau of Public Secrets", which quoted Kalle Lasn, the editor of the Canada-based countercultural magazine Adbusters: "We are not just inspired by what happened in the Arab spring recently.

In the 1930s Dutch Nobel laureate Niko Tinbergen found that birds that lay small, pale blue eggs speckled with grey preferred to sit on giant, bright blue plaster dummies with black polka dots.

Species that lay small fertilized eggs release them into the water as plankton, while species with larger eggs brood them either in the body's tube or stuck in the center of the lophophore by adhesive.

Compared to uninfected controls, a mite-infested ladybird will typically lay smaller clutches and her eggs will be less viable.

Most dusky salamanders (Desmognathus) and Pacific giant salamanders (Dicamptodon) lay smaller batches of medium-sized eggs in a concealed site in flowing water, and these are usually guarded by an adult, normally the female.

Prediction 1: Females should lay smaller or fewer eggs when assisted by helper females but not helper males.

> -wrap-foot> Prediction 1: Females should lay smaller or fewer eggs when assisted by helper females but not helper males.

Many small vertebrates on islands grow larger, mature later, lay smaller clutches/litters, and are less sexually dimorphic and aggressive than their mainland relatives.