Sentence examples for merely lay from inspiring English sources

Ms. Pence said that if eggs are removed from the nests, the birds merely lay more to replace them.

Still others, led by an instinct akin to foresight, merely lay their eggs on a leaf, so that a browsing caterpillar will eat them.

The inquiry would not determine guilt or innocence, but would merely lay out the facts surrounding the case for public review.

But Al Qaeda is merely lying in wait in Pakistan, a country whose border with Afghanistan is disputed and tenuous.

It's not clear now whether the bankers have really given up their reckless practices, as Pandit claims they have, or whether they are merely lying low.

It turned out they were merely lying low and waiting for an overpriced market to come to them, and when it did, they acted boldly and swiftly.

Joe Klein wonders whether Mr Gore is merely lying low, like this crocodile:Let's say the elders of the Democratic Party decide, when the primaries end, that neither Obama nor Clinton is viable.

Mexico answered with single runs in the third and fourth to tie the score at 2, but Cuba was merely lying in wait for the Mexicans' suspect pitching to falter.

However, republicans put out the message that she is merely lying low, and the story gradually fades.

The cultural distinctiveness therefore does not merely lie in conformity but also in the fact that one feels one needs to engage with those practices.

And there is no treatment or cure; scientists aren't even sure whether, once HPV infects a person, it dies away entirely or merely lies dormant.