How to Use lay by in a Sentence

lay by

verb
Definition of lay bynext
Synonyms for lay bynext
  • In your downtime, Gwyneth invites you to lay by her pool or embark on one of her favorite hikes.
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Aug. 2023
  • These eggs are laid by hens whose feed is supplemented with fat sources like flaxseed.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The north bank is lined with razor wire laid by the Texas National Guard, tangled with the torn clothing of migrants.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2024
  • These nymphs start off as eggs laid by adult flies from the former generation.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 6 June 2024
  • Students held up signs thanking her as wreaths of white flowers were laid by a bronze statue of her sitting on a bench.
    — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2023
  • As clutches laid by those snakes failed to contain any crimson hatchlings, vexed breeders agreed that they’d been conned.
    — Rebecca Giggs, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Distant explosions set off by animals stepping on mines laid by the Russians are a reminder that this land from the past is very much part of the present.
    — Marc Santora Emile Ducke, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Troodon females also laid eggs that are more similar in shape to the asymmetric eggs laid by modern birds than to the round reptile eggs.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In 1881, the cornerstone was laid by James Cardinal Gibbons.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Amorim and her colleagues compared the number of eggs laid by populations of the fish in different tanks.
    — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Tables were set up at the temple for flower laying by the public later Saturday.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • Summer is a great time for laying by the pool, spending afternoons at the beach, and enjoying delicious seafood dishes right on the boardwalk.
    — Brittany Natale, Redbook, 28 July 2023
  • Every thread, every stitch, is laid by hand, precisely as intended.
    — Grace Edquist, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Another route is via a shuttle that crosses railroad tracks laid by the enslaved, and which also served as delivery networks for human cargo.
    — Donovan X. Ramsey, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024
  • How this happened presents an ongoing scientific mystery, especially since the eggs laid by pterosaurs changed little in size as the dinosaurs grew to become monsters.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • German texts from the 1600s describe children celebrating Easter by hunting for eggs laid by a hare—a tradition German immigrants brought to the United States in the next century.
    — Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The first is traditional anti-personnel or anti-vehicle mines, laid by the Russians to prevent a Ukrainian advance.
    — Thomas Mutch, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Although galls can be provoked by bacteria, fungi or nematodes, the irritant is most often eggs laid by tiny native wasps, mites or other insects.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Now, half a century later, a new generation of tennis players like Coco Gauff are benefitting from the foundation laid by Casals and the original nine.
    — Danya Bacchus, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2023
  • James also makes fine use of black-and-white stills, some framed in the usual documentary style, others gently laid by a visible hand on a surface, tangible representation of a tricky story.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2023
  • And that foundation gets laid by genetics and neurology and formative experiences and emotional interactions and treatment at the hands of others, and what all those things do to your soul.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But if the current contest is a visible example of that nascent political power, the foundations have been laid by women like Ms. Magaña and Ms. Álvarez and those before them.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 May 2024
  • For example, a 2019 study reported that wild pigs were digging up eggs laid by endangered loggerhead sea turtles on an island off the coast of South Carolina, reducing the turtles' nesting success to zero in some years.
    — Marcus Lashley, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2023
  • For example, a 2019 study reported that wild pigs were digging up eggs laid by endangered loggerhead sea turtles on an island off the coast of South Carolina, reducing the turtles’ nesting success to zero in some years.
    — Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • While the specific details of how genes functioned were not yet fully understood, the groundwork laid by early geneticists during this period paved the way for future discoveries in genetics.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • At least one powerful explosive device laid by Palestinian militants and other fire disabled several Israeli armored vehicles in a village near Jenin at around 7 a.m. on Monday, complicating what had started out as an arrest raid, the military said.
    — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 19 June 2023
  • The foundation laid by the Public Safety Institute in fostering true interoperability of a person’s full medical record was instrumental in fostering the national vision of a cohesive approach to health care improvement.
    — John C. (jack) Lewin and Jane Delgado, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024

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