laying down

Example Sentences

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What comes after silicon microchips—pocket quantum computers, say, or transistors only an atom thick—could be as strange to people living today as microchips were in the 1960s, when Gordon Moore started laying down the law.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

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

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

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

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026

After 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state, the outlawed Kurdish PKK will hold a ceremony on Friday to mark a symbolic first step in laying down its arms.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

“What the devil do you mean?” he said, staring at me, laying down his spoon.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier