Sentence examples for preferred to lay from inspiring English sources

After an immigration overhaul measure was defeated in Congress in 2007, the pace of enforcement raids picked up and many immigrants, especially those without legal status, preferred to lay low.

Usually, we positioned the nerve over the membrane, although more recently we preferred to lay it under the buccal periosteum.

I preferred to lie on the living-room carpet, watching horror movies.

Ms. Wu's father explained that the family preferred to lie to his daughter all those years rather than risk harming her Olympic prospects.

He didn't direct her, or put her in a pose she hated those anyway, couldn't hold them, preferred to lie down comfortably with a book.

Sayful Islam, a local leader of the radical group al-Muhajiroun, who last year praised the Madrid bombings and warned that "Britain must expect to be attacked", preferred to lie low yesterday.

They were not, as he points out, all that numerous: most French men and women, during the four cold and ugly "années noires" of German occupation, preferred to lie low, reach some kind of inner accommodation with Vichy, and wait it out.

The nucleotide G is preferred to lie immediately next to the natural ptRNA cleavage site and base-pairs with the nucleotide C before the ACCA sequence in the 3' end of the ptRNA cleavage product [17].

Monarch larvae eat only milkweed, and prefer to lay their eggs on milkweed leaves.

They prefer to lay eggs in freshwater ponds, streams and lakes.

They prefer to lay eggs in leafy, sunlit pools and drains, rice fields and ponds.