7 sentences with 'laying'

Example sentences and phrases with the word laying and other words derived from it.

• « Richelieu deserves much of the credit for laying the foundations of absolutism in France. »

• « My wife, who has a talent for home improvement, was one afternoon laying tile in the kitchen while I rested in the next room. At that moment a friend dropped in for a visit. »

• « To avoid a repetition of the failure of the 1806 invasion, the invaders decided to seize Montevideo first, which they did on 3 February 1807, after laying siege to it for two weeks. »

• « Spiders reproduce by laying eggs on the chilling scale of five hundred per female. Of course, selection is then merciless; the smallest spiders are devoured by their mothers in a vicious cannibalistic frenzy. »

• « "Something very strange is happening, and I love it," says one patient who at the beginning of the experiment had 49 hypersensitive joints; after four days of prayer with the laying on of hands he had only eight hypersensitive joints, and after six months he was able to do without painkillers. »

• « Spinoza was excommunicated from Judaism itself when he was only twenty-four years old, but he continued to publish his works, thus laying the foundation for what later became known as "freethinkers", people who may or may not be true atheists, but who certainly rejected the authority of sacred writings and churches. »

• « The experimental group will consist of about two-thirds of the patients, whose health will be prayed for over four days through the traditional Christian ceremony of laying on of hands; in addition, half of the participants will be prayed for over six months. The witness group will consist of the third for whom no one will pray. »

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7 sentences with 'laying'

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