1.   The table was laid, and a roast chicken lay waiting for him to carve.

2.   Q. Do chickens really lay an egg every day?

3.   Use the palm of your hand to flatten the breast so that the whole chicken lies flat.

4.   At one river hamlet, more than half a dozen chickens lay dead on the baked earth.

5.   Twenty-two thousand dead chickens lie deteriorating in heaps of wet, stinking sawdust -- the remnants of a chicken house deluged by Hurricane Floyd.