Lay out

//ˌleɪ ˈaʊt//

"Lay out" in a Sentence (18 examples)

She laid out hundreds of dollars to throw a great party.

[…] you must endeavour to take off your Mistress from all the care you can, giving to her a just and true account of what moneys you lay out for her, shewing your self thrifty in all your disbursements.

There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying it out.

She laid the blocks out in a circle on the floor.

She laid out a terrific spread for the party.

Crossing stations on single lines are laid out so that one line has a straight run through, and is signalled in each direction, avoiding the need to slow down to take the turnout into the loop.

Having laid out these big-picture figures, the report then begins its analysis of traffic types against route mileage.

Let me lay it out for you: you're not going to get a better opportunity than this one.

Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out […]

He began to lay out the hull for an inexpensive but fast littoral drone.

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She began to lay out how the circuits would be connected.

It was about dark now; so I dropped the canoe down the river under some willows that hung over the bank, and waited for the moon to rise. I made fast to a willow; then I took a bite to eat, and by and by laid down in the canoe to smoke a pipe and lay out a plan.

They laid him out beautifully on a bier draped in satin.

So that no white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out— which might hardly come to pass, so he muttered—then, whoever should do that last office for the dead, would find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole.

The family was alone in the parlour with the great polished box. William, when laid out, was six feet four inches long. Like a monument lay the bright brown, ponderous coffin.

I laid him out on the sidewalk after he tried to grab me.

She really laid him out for taking the money and then lying to try to cover it up.

Hey man can you lay out on the bridge?

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