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Example sentences for "laid open"

  • For there is nothing concealed, that shall not be laid open; nor hid, which shall not be known.

  • Here the tertiary strata cover, and for the most part conceal, the cretaceous rocks, except in some spots where they have been laid open by the denudation of newer formations.

  • Those represented in the annexed cut were observed by me in 1839, laid open in a large chalk-pit near Norwich.

  • Der Poet aber deutet auf die Stelle hin=--The secrets of the way of life may not and cannot be laid open; there are stones of offence along the path over which every wayfarer must stumble.

  • A still more striking example may be seen to the west of Torre del Annunziata, near Forte Scassato, where the mass is laid open to the depth of twenty feet.

  • Accordingly, with these exceptions, no identity can be more perfect than the form, and distribution of the matter at the base of Monte Nuovo, as laid open by the encroaching sea, and the appearance of the beds superimposed on Pompeii.

  • I have thus, my friend, laid open my heart to you, because you were so kind as to take an interest in healing again revolutionary affections, which have ceased in expression only, but not in their existence.

  • It laid open to us, too, the chapter of accidents, which in the present state of Europe, was a very pregnant one.

  • If these correspondences should ever be laid open to the public eye, they will probably be found not models of comity towards their adversaries.

  • I laid open a nodule with a blow of the hammer, and my heart leaped up when I saw that it enclosed an organism.

  • In this case, the whole process is laid open.

  • Our public wounds cannot be concealed; to be cured, they must be laid open.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aesthetic value; artificial horizon; carry away; curry powder; east window; give satisfaction; just come; laid before the house; laid claim; laid down his life; laid himself; laid his; laid out; laid paper; laid rope; laid siege; laid them; laid upon; laid waste; neither shall; particular things; penal laws; popular edition; she has; steam boilers; world full