lay to

verb

1. to bring a vessel into a haven

2. another term for heave to

Example Sentences

Hundreds of Israelis gathered Tuesday in the central town of Kfar Saba to lay to rest army officer Hadar Goldin, whose remains were returned by Hamas after being held in Gaza for more than a decade.

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This report has been long-awaited and the government is hoping it will lay to rest the argument over how best to carry power from the new offshore windfarms in the North Sea.

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Our country is locked in hundred-year battles with horrors that we cannot lay to rest, over slavery, over the genocide committed against Native Americans, over women and their bodies and their reproductive rights.

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It was the moment she lay to rest the Olympic ghosts of three years ago.

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Hull City Council told the BBC it would speak with those affected "to agree how we can lay to rest unidentified ashes".

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