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Example sentences for "well laid"

  • Bucharest; the new town is well laid out, and contains some fine buildings; its harbour is one of the finest on the Danube; a great export trade is carried on in cereals, while textiles and metals are the chief imports.

  • Constantinople; is surrounded by walls, is well laid out, drained, &c.

  • Nor could they be applied but by authority of the magistrate, after due examination, though there was almost invariably coupled with the designating of the number of stripes the injunction that they be "well laid on.

  • At all events, as a deterrent to petty crime among our colored brethren one sound thrashing, "well laid on," would most likely prove more efficacious than any jail sentence imposed by a latter day justice of the peace.

  • The streets are wide, well laid out, and regularly paved, the northern section of the city being intersected by canals, enabling the merchants to float their goods to the doors of their warehouses.

  • The old streets are narrow, crooked, and in some places ascended by steps, on an angle of forty-five degrees; but the modern part of the city is well laid out.

  • It was five and twenty lashes, well laid on; you hears that, well laid on.

  • Upon this charge he was found guilty; and his sentence was similar to that of the captain's, with the addition that he was to receive at the gangway twenty-five lashes, well laid on.

  • This park is well laid out, and is for Dublin what Central Park is for New York, or Fairmount for Philadelphia.

  • These walls are built of a dark-reddish stone, well laid in white mortar, and have a very antiquated appearance.

  • Glasgow is well laid out; the streets are wide and clean, and there is little to be seen that is peculiar.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "well laid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each night; must appear; well advised; well again; well aware; well browned; well content; well contented; well cooked; well defined; well developed; well drained; well dressed; well marked; well mounted; well nigh; well pleas; well recognized; well rubbed; well skilled; well spoken; well that; well understood; well used; well versed; well wooded