Sentence examples for manage to lay from inspiring English sources

I suppose for the first course, that aubergine salad, I can manage to lay my hand on the right bottle.

But coaches, being coaches, manage to lay not-so-subtle threats and guilt trips on their players.

It seems odd to me that this top-secret office of Financial Intelligence somehow can't manage to lay hands on the money it snatched from me, but what do I know?

How did a prominent public figure manage to lie about such a central fact of his biography?

And they eat any eggs that she manages to lay.

But Ms. Coughlan somehow manages to lay low in the part and let supporting actors propel the comedy.

A man had his mobile phone stolen but managed to lay a hand on the thief just long enough for the crowd to close in.

Slighter than Carver, less puerile than Bukowski, Vlautin nevertheless manages to lay claim to the same bleary-eyed territory, and surprisingly — perhaps even unintentionally — to make it new.

The thinness of their presence means that, under the cover of darkness, Taliban have managed to lay booby trap roadside bombs in previously cleared areas.

"So I managed to lay down the foundations of who the character was before I then took a departure and became incarnations of who she is.

The word "internet" gets a few hundred mentions among its million words, but he never manages to lay a finger on the colossal change that's happening.