lay down

Example Sentences

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This was a major own-goal, to be sure, but one could say that Starmer lay down with a dog and got up with fleas.

From Salon

He lay down in the grass listening to the sounds of night animals.

From Literature

Instead of sitting, Moose lay down with his nose toward the top end of the tree and his tail toward Jonathan.

From Literature

So it's growing all the time, it's laying down that peat as the sphagnum is kind of decaying.

From BBC

On paper, it sounds like infrastructure-building, an ambitious laying down of the gauntlet.

From Salon