Sentence examples for layby from inspiring English sources

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layby

noun

Alternative spelling of lay-by

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Her official car often had to pull into the side on approaching a town, because we were too early and the police escort was not in place, leaving startled citizens wondering what the prime minister was doing in their local layby.

I can't remember when I last saw such a layby – they have been quietly abolished, which is a pity.

Maybe you should learn to bite your tongue when you're sitting in a New Zealand layby with a policeman at your window, having been pulled over for the third time in a week for going a few miles over the speed limit (and, once, a few miles under), and you have a sneaking suspicion it might be because you're a woman in her early 20s with the audacity to drive a motorhome.

Those struggles with a Thermos in a windswept layby will be but a distant memory.

Following a meal at a restaurant in Cuckfield, Denford asked Mytton to pull his Jaguar over into a layby where he went on to molest the "inconsolable" boy on the back seat, jurors heard.

"We are hoping to hear from anyone who saw this white camper van and, in particular, if they saw it parked by the side of the road or in a layby.

We are just coming up to the layby now, darling...'...

I consider myself to be a hunter-gatherer, so if I'm stopped at a layby and I see some wood, I pick it up.

The incident happened while the truck was parked in a layby on the A441 at Cookhill, near Redditch in Worcestershire.

Fiona Pilkington, 38, set fire to her car at a layby near her home in Leicestershire nearly four years ago, while she and her 18-year-old daughter, Francecca Hardwick, sat inside.

The Leyland DAF 200 vehicle, registration number F864 RJB, is believed to have stopped in an unidentified layby on the northbound A19.

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