Sentence examples for lays about from inspiring English sources

MacMillan lays about with rhetorical broadsword and with fearless abandon.

The second half of the Poetic Edda contains lays about the Germanic heroes.

The hen lays about 15 eggs in a grassy cup in grainfields or hedges.

A female short-horned grasshopper lays about 100 eggs in the soil.

"A female lays about 25 eggs at a time, and about 10 clutches of eggs a season," Mr. Allgeier said.

The female, which often eats the male during mating, lays about 200 eggs in a large cocoonlike capsule (ootheca), which serves to protect the eggs from adverse weather conditions and enemies.

Several ragged lawn chairs were laid about, as was a couch, a well-used barbecue, and several parched garden plants.

Or, if you have one of those Windows disks laying about, you can use that.

Overall, FemSW hybrids laid about 130% more, and FemIT hybrids about 50% more eggs than beetles from either parental population.

BMW is laying off about 5,000 temporary workers.

Freightliner, a big truck manufacturer in Portland, has laid off about 700 workers this year.