lays by

present tense third-person singular of lay by
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lays by
Verb
  • Of that land where America dumps all its loose nuts?
    John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Dexter steals Prater’s yacht and dumps his body bags in the New York Harbor, right in front of the Statue of Liberty.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Currently, the vault only stores your address, birth date, credit card information, name, and phone number.
    Kim Key, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The system also comes with molten salt thermal storage, which stores the heat from the reactor in tanks.
    Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Dual Front mode Rainbow Six Siege ditches turn-taking to let players attack and defend simultaneously.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Its Foamy pad ditches the air in favor of all-foam construction.
    Wes Siler, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Ouligay Period Bag My teen and her friends always make sure to keep their period stashes organized in one cute pouch like this black one.
    Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 6 Sep. 2025
  • There were plenty of waiver stashes who didn’t hit, as well.
    Jake Ciely, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Marysol and Alexia take Julia, Lisa, and an unusually dour Adriana, who is moping about her birthday and how society discards women of a certain age.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Shredding high-voltage storage systems discards valuable resources.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cars pull into the courtyard; someone unloads a television from the back of one of them.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Seizures or other involuntary movements ensue, progressively getting worse as the person loses more control over their body.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Lays by.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lays%20by. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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