laying by

present participle of lay by
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for laying by
Verb
  • Surveillance footage from the home reportedly caught a person dumping the tampons from the back of a truck while the ex — also a firefighter, according to the News-Journal — was at work.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This system was dumping rain on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico Tuesday morning and expected to emerge over the Bay of Campeche later in the day.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Sébastien Philippe of the University of Wisconsin–Madison is a nuclear security specialist who has studied past harms and potential risks of building, testing and storing nuclear weapons.
    Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This spacious one works in an entryway, or for storing bedtime reads above your little one’s nightstand.
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The compartment, which costs $3,500 extra, even features a retractable ramp to making loading and unloading a breeze.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2025
  • As someone who worked his way up from unloading trucks in the warehouse to eventually landing in the C-suite, McMillon embodies how staying dedicated to one employer can work wonders for aspiring leaders—in contrast to job-hopping in search of potential pay gains.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Keeping a microfiber cloth handy or stashing disinfecting wipes under the sink makes this a fast, almost effortless ritual.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But as the months have passed, Juni has stopped stashing food, loves to nap, and seems so much more at ease.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hostas are also susceptible to nematodes and various viruses, but discarding the foliage after a hard freeze can prevent these problems from taking hold.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Players are prohibited from discarding on the playing field any loose towels or other materials used for wiping hands and the football.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hangers That Don’t Match Since her clients hire her to help create a clean, organized look, Tonia Tomlin of Sorted Out, a professional organizing company in Dallas, Texas, heads right for the closets and starts ditching all hangers that don’t match.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Great for saving space and ditching questionable hotel mini toiletries.
    Julie Rousseau, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Since then, eight Cup Final series have featured a Canadian team, with more than half of them — the Vancouver Canucks (1994, 2011), Calgary Flames (2004) and Oilers (2006, 2024) — losing in Game 7s.
    Rob Rossi, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Ed is left alone on the farm after impulsively killing that brother (whose actual death might have been accidental) for breaking up the family unit and, the next year, losing Augusta to complications from a stroke.
    Judy Berman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Manchester City will be disappointed with throwing away two points in Monaco, with Erling Haaland, who scored twice, and Pep Guardiola admitting that improvements were necessary.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Starting over does not mean throwing away the earlier chapters.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Laying by.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laying%20by. Accessed 11 Oct. 2025.

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