Sentence examples for lay something from inspiring English sources

"There are always alternatives, and I might have been able to lay something on him.

If you lay a table or an egg, or you lay something down, the past tense is laid.

On the shelf where I found it lay something else: a package of slippery green paper, neatly tied.

But high up, in a plastic bag, lay something I'd not seen before: a plait of auburn hair, 18 inches long.

"That was something that we wanted to do -- hit them when they weren't looking and even when they were looking, lay something on them.

Even when driving such pickups became prohibitively expensive, I never lost touch with the sense that under their hoods lay something larger than a mere engine.

Underneath that notion, though, lies something darker.

Behind the rather bloodless language lies something more disturbing.

Beneath this tranquillity, however, lies something altogether unnerving.

But beneath the clowning lies something more resonant.

Yet behind the debate lies something fundamental to modern politics.