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Example sentences for "laid out"

  • I have two good architects on the job," he explained, "but I would rather trust your ideas as to how those rooms should be laid out.

  • Just back of the house is a lily pond, which is laid out in a decorative manner.

  • This land abutted on the river, and was one hundred and fifty feet deep, laid out in terraced grassland and garden.

  • The grounds are extensive and are laid out in lawns and grass lands.

  • Keeping to the left, a sweep of the road takes us to the old cemetery, laid out, as was the custom of the early days, on every large estate.

  • The Prado is laid out in many avenues, leading in various directions to the suburbs, and these are planted with wild almond trees, which afford a pleasant shade.

  • He laid out everything on the table as he found it.

  • When a body's laid out in a coffin, you know, all the weight's in the end where the head and trunk rest.

  • Our place was a pretty cottage, about two miles from the city, with grounds that had been tastefully laid out.

  • One condemns all time and expense laid out in social visiting as so much waste.

  • The town is laid out in two long streets at the foot of dreary hills, which look like gigantic masses of sand, but which really consist of large rocks covered with thin layers of earth and sand.

  • The palace garden itself is small, and is laid out in terraces right down into the valley below: a larger garden, that serves as a nursery for plants and trees, joins it.

  • The monument is surrounded by a tolerably well-kept garden, laid out in the European style.

  • I laid out a large sum of money in the purchase of several sorts of fine stuffs of Bagdad and Moussol and departed.

  • The £5 I have sent to Harriet Beaufort to be laid out in books for Fanny Stewart.

  • Under the instructions the manor was to be divided into one hundred lots of 200 acres each, to be laid out in such a way as to allow communication with the river to as many settlers as possible.

  • Mr. Coy was required to "leave a row of trees on each side of the high road, thereafter to be laid out, at the distance of about six rods from each other.

  • Not half of the isle is laid out in inclosed plantations as at Amsterdam; but the parts which are not inclosed, are not less fertile or uncultivated.

  • Except the cliffs and beaches, every other part is covered with wood, or laid out in plantations.

  • This large establishment, situated on the other side of the Arlanzon, and nearer to the city than Miraflores, is reached by a pleasant avenue of trees, and is surrounded by well-laid out gardens.

  • The grounds surrounding the structure are laid out, on the south side, in pleasant gardens, where fountains, flowers, and a few inferior marble statues serve for external finish.

  • Inside a palaestra, the peristyle ought to be laid out as described above.

  • Let the ascending flights of steps between the wedges of seats, as far up as the first curved cross-aisle, be laid out on lines directly opposite to the angles of the squares.

  • Towns should be laid out not as an exact square nor with salient angles, but in circular form, to give a view of the enemy from many points.

  • It is surrounded by fine woods and pleasure-grounds, laid out in the formal style, which is still the characteristic of French landscape-gardening.

  • The windows of some of these apartments opened upon gardens, laid out in the English taste and full of English flowers; others commanded the finest prospects of the city and the open space below.

  • The very evenin' after this, Fate and Mr. Pomper gin me a chance to carry out the plan I'd laid out heretofore.

  • Yes it would," sez Josiah hautily; "I laid out to fix it somehow with a whistle.

  • Whether he laid out to kill her I don't know, for she set down.

  • It is situated on high ground, within an enclosure of some fifteen or twenty acres, overlooking the Black Sea, laid out in lawn and gravel walks, and ornamented with rows of acacia-trees.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    biographical sketches; divine government; enjoy himself; fifth part; half tablespoon; initial letters; laid aside; laid bare; laid before the house; laid claim; laid down; laid eggs; laid himself; laid his; laid hold; laid open; laid rope; laid siege; laid them; like flowers; might have been anticipated; not far from the; our opinion; pleasant taste; religion were; will treat