Sentence examples for lays us from inspiring English sources

Before the heat lays us low.

On the one hand, we have none: We can't control whether we go over the fiscal cliff, whether our company lays us off, the maps on iPhone 5, or whether our kids listen to us.

Cuts in us, they'll be laying us off.

In the soliloquies, the finest performers seem to be, partly, laying bare their own souls to us, too and laying us bare to ourselves.

"They tied us up, laid us on the ground, a gun at the back of the head," he told me.

They took us outside, in the Arizona heat, laid us down with our hands behind our backs, on concrete for four or five hours.

They ask me every day: 'Are they laying us off?' " Mr. Dzurkoc did not take issue with the governor's measure that caps property taxes, but said there were better ways to cut costs.

These problems existed beneath the radar before the recession struck in 2008, but they were masked by the fruits of an economic system that has now laid us low.

If you don't like what you see, then the problem does not lay with 'them', it lays with us.

Our trust in God, His promises, and what He has already done for us keep us from falling into the traps Satan lays for us.

These disasters are an opportunity to bring into clear focus the real issue that lays before us.