Sentence examples for live laid from inspiring English sources

The sensible person, having received what suffices for a happy life, will live "laid out in a burial shroud" and ready to face death; the dronelike person gives no thought to the mortality and evanescence of his constitution.

Lenny Pickett, the musical director of "Saturday Night Live," laid down no less than 60 tracks to create this perfectly bland ambience.

Daily I see their lives laid waste.

"Half of a Yellow Sun" takes us inside ordinary lives laid waste by the all too ordinary unraveling of nation states.

Still, it's the sound of desert sand scraping against the throat — and the mind — that one hears in Thompson's three monologues about lives laid waste by the wars in Iraq.

At a preview on Wednesday of "Children of War," audience members, squirmed in their seats as they grappled with the complexity and ambiguity of the six lives laid bare on the small stage before them.

There is something absurdly over the top about the food world — the kitchens awash in testosterone, the eternal flames, the flaunting of knives and burns, the lives laid waste in pursuit of what is, let's face it, a fleeting sensual pleasure.

We'd first have to be in that position, having our lives laid out before us, allowing the opportunity to assess our situation.

There seemed to be all these young women who had their lives laid open in various ways that they had no control over.

The actual mystery of the show is why these four characters, once they've had every last sad and intimate detail of their private lives laid bare to us, have acted the way they did throughout the entire season.

"There are a lot of people along thousands of miles of coastline that had their homes, livelihoods, and lives laid to ruin.