1.   A security cordon has been laid around the Taiwan-destined warships and their four sister ships at Lorient.

2.   He is not one of the thousands of manufacturing workers who have been laid off around the country because of global economic turmoil.

3.   He revealed his preoccupations one by one, in quick succession, as if laying them around himself in a circle.

4.   In Arlington, he was walking around really gingerly, like he might fall down, really tired, laying around.

5.   Instead, he just tried his best to inspire his audience to eat better, work out more and stop laying around the house.

6.   No, I went surfing for about a week, and the rest of the time I just laid around with the channel changer.

7.   Pavement was laid around the portables Saturday, ramps leading up to the classrooms were built over the summer and playground equipment has begun to arrive.

8.   We laid lumber around the bottom of the fence, and he dug under that, too.

9.   Wreathes of flowers, placed by mourners, were laid around the area.

10.   Salvage and oil-spill response companies were on the scene and booms had been laid around the ship to contain the spill.