Sentence examples for would lay down from inspiring English sources

I hoped that Obama would lay down a clear marker.

"He sent me these voluminous emails which I would lay down to read.

But she gave no indication when, or whether, Mr. Obama would lay down his own blueprint for an accord.

For this reason if no other, his public judgment would lay down a marker around which average opinion could coalesce.

His arrival would lay down a marker as the club seeks to rebuild its squad with players of similar quality.

My faith teaches that greater love has no man than he who would lay down his life for a friend.

In between songs, the keyboard player would lay down a quiet groove to accompany Donnie's idiosyncratic lectures.

"They used to be a team that would lay down," Steelers linebacker Joey Porter said of the Bengals.

As a boy he picked up the banjos that performers would lay down during their breaks at dances and taught himself to play.

He would lay down his life not for the grandiose abstractions preached by politicians and the clergy but for gardening and warm beer.

People would lay down a rose and then just stare at the building or read the handwritten messages pasted all over the facade.