Laying
"Laying" in a Sentence (11 examples)
Instead of laying off these workers, why don't we just cut their hours?
You like laying on the grass.
You are laying in the bed.
We spent the night laying on the grass looking at the stars, so we could find a meaning or logic to life.
I'm laying you off.
The Byzantine Greek monks Cyril and Methodius are credited with bringing the alphabet to Russia and laying the foundations of the Russian Orthodox Church.
A critic is a hen that clucks while others are laying.
Our teacher used to say "This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you" before laying into us with a cane.
"Where is my Time Machine?" I began, bawling like an angry child, laying hands upon them and shaking them up together.
You're not laying one finger on Tom's money.
You may get a larger number of eggs within a given time, but the later layings will not give you average good chickens, when you come to hatch such product.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.