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How to use the word laying in a Sentence?

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We’ve run the numbers with polling and modeling in all 50 states, and our latest numbers show an independent could win outright in the Electoral College, and that they would draw votes equally from both sides, this is why we’re collecting signatures, recruiting volunteers, and laying the groundwork for an independent ticket IF, and ONLY IF, both parties put up unappealing candidates for the next presidential election.

Maryanne Martini

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They told me that my son was bleeding out of his head, he was laying there, he had a seizure his eyes rolled to the back of his head.

Jessica Drain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Laying in bed rn still trying to figure out if I should go back to sleep or go to school.

The Blonde Jon

added by TheBlondeJon
1 year ago

I mean, my boy’s laying face down. He’s done the way he’s done. His head was the way his head was. I could see his brain laying on the sidewalk. I did n’t know what to do.

Alex Murdaugh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the things that’s really important is these early dietary behaviors, this is really when kids are laying the foundation for some of those dietary behaviors, so starting out strong and making sure that they’re creating these healthy behaviors … that’s going to set them up as they go into adolescence and adulthood.

Heather Hamner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sequential laying is the release of eggs one by one with some time gap in between two laying events. This is seen in birds. Modern reptiles, for example turtles and crocodiles, on the other hand, lay all eggs together as a clutch.

Guntupalli Prasad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We ran up to the school, went into the band room, and I found her laying on the floor with her legs elevated on a chair, and I’m looking at her, and she’s not really moving.

Eliana Rosario

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We recommend hanging or laying flat to dry. We also recommend keeping bright-colored fabrics separate when wet, \.

Jennifer Chevchek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Rack Amazon The experts recommend hanging or laying flat to dry. Rack Amazon The experts also recommend keeping bright-colored fabrics separate when wet.

Jennifer Chevchek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The court is laying out a doctrine which they can employ to strike down whatever regulations they want.

Jeff Merkley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If somebody's laying low that was involved in this or knows something, and they think they lay low long enough we're just going to go away, that's not going to happen, we're going to keep at this until we get answers.

Cade Palmer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

CAPSTONE is a pathfinder in many ways, and it will demonstrate several technology capabilities during its mission timeframe while navigating a never-before-flown orbit around the moon, cAPSTONE is laying a foundation for Artemis, Gateway, and commercial support for future lunar operations.

Elwood Agasid

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We are continuing to provide services, and women like me, and there are many throughout this country, will be doing the same thing. And I tell you today we're not laying down. We're not giving up.

Diane Derzis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They're methodically laying out this case.

Bret Baier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Any time you see a Kemp's ridley sea turtle laying eggs on a beach, it is a win for conservationists because there were only a few hundred left on this planet in the mid-1980s.

Pamela Plotkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Gloucester was our fourth dive season looking for The Gloucester, we were starting to believe that we were not going to find her, we'd dived so much and just found sand. On my descent to the seabed the first thing I spotted were large cannons laying on white sand, it was awe-inspiring and really beautiful. We were the only people in the world at that moment in time who knew where the wreck lay.

Lincoln Barnwell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I truly believe we've made extraordinary progress by laying a new foundation for our economy, which becomes clear once global inflation begins to recede.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sammy kind of woke me up and roused me to the door. I looked out the door and saw Marilyn laying on the ground, so we all came rushing out.

Alice Joossens

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ultimately this strategy is laying the breadcrumbs to the highly anticipated AR headset Apple Glasses set to make Apple Glasses debut likely before holiday season or latest early 2023.

Daniel Ives

Found on CNN
1 year ago

NATO is going to release its new Strategic Concept laying out how the Alliance will sustain and strengthen transatlantic security in the face of President Putin's aggression as well as other emerging threats. And we'll look ahead to our continuing efforts to fortify our force posture on NATO's eastern flank.

Jens Stoltenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With this administration and this much support, The US're in a position where The US're going to be laying off people in the renewables industry, while you say all those things we agree with, we're getting crushed because we literally can't buy a module today. It's so frustrating.

George Hershman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You never want to see an animal this big laying on Pompano Beach, this is 11 feet long and over 500 pounds. It's a female, so it's always sad when a female passes.

Pompano Beach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Los Angeles police officers said, we will go get him. We are prepared. We are prepared to get him right now. You can press charges. We can arrest him. They were laying out the options, and as they were talking, Chris was... being very dismissive of those options. He was like, no, I'm fine. He was, like, no, no, no.

Will Packer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If it had been handled properly, if they would have looked at the video — they’ve looked at the video every single time this year — the kid was laying on the floor. Wyatt was laying on the floor. And they’re going to punish those guys( the officials) ? No, they’re not punishing those guys. They’re punishing this guy right here because they did n’t do their job.

Jim Boeheim

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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