1.   He and Varov have determined that the heroin plague that is sweeping across Russia is a conspiracy by Muslim nations and Chechen warlords to lay low their motherland.

2.   Were I to quote a single word from that dinner, a lightning bolt from Kay would lay me low.

3.   Within a year the Army and Navy will run out of a vaccine to protect against a virus that can lay troops low during basic training.

4.   Civilization raises great edifices, as well as the discontents and the weapons to lay them low.

5.   He was eventually diagnosed as having a chronic sinus condition that meant even the smallest of head colds would give him an infection and lay him low.