Examples of 'lay in wait' in a sentence

Meaning of "lay in wait"

lay in wait - This phrase means to wait in hiding or in a concealed position, usually with the intention of ambushing or surprising someone. It is often used metaphorically to describe a planned or calculated strategy.

How to use "lay in wait" in a sentence

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lay in wait
But if we lay in wait for him together.
While the iraqi militants lay in wait.
I lay in wait for him in his room.
There they lay in wait for him.
This place is as good as any to lay in wait.
They lay in wait and attack by surprise.
As for those who lay in wait for you.
I lay in wait to share again my light.
A surreal scene lay in wait for us.
They lay in wait for years before attacking.
The kind that lay in wait.
That he lay in wait for her return.
Ghouls and goblins lay in wait.
Then they lay in wait to get it.
It was masking the chaos that lay in wait.

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Five of them lay in wait and jumped me.
Various natural disasters and catastrophes always lay in wait for us.
The group lay in wait along the road.
His aggressiveness lay in wait.
Another lay in wait for flies and cockroaches.
The men who lay in wait.
They lay in wait in the dark.
You turn they lay in wait.
I lay in wait.
But a new dawn lay in wait.
You lay in wait.
No legionaries lay in wait.
They can lay in wait for days waiting for the target.
Her lover lay in wait.
But his men were not prepared for what lay in wait.
Marseille lay in wait in the final.
And this highlights a further taxing dilemma that might lay in wait for taxpayers.
The tiger lay in wait for the ghoral.
All Griff then had to do was lay in wait.
The bear may lay in wait for several hours.
League champions and double hunting Arsenal lay in wait.
This one lay in wait.
Euthymus lay in wait for the Hero in the temple and won the fight.
The night lay in wait.
They lay in wait for cars, in which couples.
Why not lay in wait.
But inside nate byars A darkness lay in wait.
All kinds of danger lay in wait on the path ahead.
Soon as you roll out, cameras go up and we lay in wait.
Then lay in wait.
The rest of the army burned their camps and lay in wait at Tenedos.
Arkin lay in wait.
There, the sidewalk where his hope lay in wait.
And the fear of what lay in wait for us above the surface.
While they blindly celebrated victory, their enemy lay in wait.

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