6 sentences with “laid”

Men and women who had worked loyally for Henry Ford for many years had been laid off.

Then she carried her out of the house and laid her on a banana leaf. -Her little sister is dead," she told the other children.

Unknowingly, with his experience, Jean Valnet laid the foundations on which this alternative discipline of contemporary medicine, aromatherapy, grew.

Every city built by the Romans in their conquered territory was laid out according to careful plans, with streets built in grids and centred on a public forum with public buildings.

Some powerful priests, the Sadducees, claimed that all Jews had to follow the 10 Commandments, but only the Temple priests had to follow the 613 laws and commands laid down by Moses.

Many years earlier, Moses had laid down a series of dietary prohibitions for the Jewish people. These were religious in character but, as we now know, had a rather more pragmatic purpose: to safeguard the health of his people during the long exodus they had undertaken.