How to Use lay/put (something) to rest in a Sentence

lay/put (something) to rest

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  • There's a world of this character's past that needs to be put to rest.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • After Caitlin Clark wins player of the year, can the debate be put to rest?
    — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The remains of 30 more victims will be put to rest there on Tuesday.
    — Eldar Emric, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • His booming voice put to rest rumors that age had brought a tremble to it.
    — Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Those fears have been put to rest as the sport’s initial season rolls past its midpoint.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The message was clear: There's room in theaters for both, and any notion of a feud between the two movies should be put to rest.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 20 July 2023
  • The debate around the importance of handwriting was put to rest a while back.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 18 June 2024
  • But none of it, not the settlements or the court decisions, fully put to rest the question of blame.
    — Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The concern and the wait can finally be put to rest — entirely.
    — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2023
  • That should put to rest the idea that workers need to be monitored at all times in order to be productive.
    — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 6 July 2023
  • Yet on Monday those theories too appeared to be put to rest.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2023
  • If there were doubts about Donald Trump’s decision to skip the first debate, they have likely been put to rest tonight.
    — Tim Hanrahan, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The Capitol insurrection should have put to rest the notion that Trump has the best interests of cops at heart.
    — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2024
  • Once the fire is out and life-saving measures are put to rest, people can begin to assess how to rebuild.
    — Dan Lambe, Treehugger, 28 Aug. 2023
  • For Miller, the news that her parents had been murdered – that she had been lost and then found – put to rest many questions, while also raising new ones.
    — Cristina Corbin, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Concerns about dogs chewing up their beds can be put to rest, as these beds are built to withstand their playful nature.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2023
  • Advertisement That’s the far more important question to put to rest, so please do so.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • However, the competition hasn't been put to rest just yet.
    — Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Britain is now ready to lay to rest its longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, with billions thought to be watching around the globe to mark the end of a reign that defined an era.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 19 Sep. 2022
  • But all of her worries were put to rest when her first solo album Innocence of Broken Love was released and the song of the same title became a hit.
    — Billboard China, Billboard, 13 July 2023
  • And Kappelman and colleagues believe their findings will lay to rest what's long been a contentious argument over how and where Lucy lived.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2016
  • The federal government’s own guidance should put to rest their concerns.
    — Tony Coelho, STAT, 20 July 2023
  • Just a short time after the rumor began circulating online and picked up steam, it has seemingly been put to rest.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The Oscar winner, 69, put to rest speculation about a return more than a year after news of his departure broke.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • But in the rough world of politics, opponents are not about to let personal embarrassments lay to rest.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2023
  • When the real Junior returns, his AI-counterpart is put to rest, vacuum-sealed in a bag like leftover meat, a moment that sees Hen flushed with grief.
    — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Robinson's busy 2023 put to rest any concerns of lingering issues from a major injury.
    — Pat Brennan, The Enquirer, 3 Jan. 2024
  • More than 3,000 hits — in MLB alone — and many successful Japanese position players later, those doubts have been put to rest.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The supervisor’s failure to follow directions meant that Lionell would at last receive small pieces of his sisters to lay to rest.
    — Bronwen Dickey, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The weddings episode will lay to rest all of the speculation surrounding these couples, and fans will get even more answers when the show’s first-ever live reunion airs two days later.
    — Kimi Robinson, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2023

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