LAIR in a Sentence

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25 example sentences for LAIR, such as:
1. The kidnappers' lair was an old farm in the hills.
2. He had there, it was said, a sort of field, a hole, a lair.
3. It was a lair open to one against whom all doors were shut.
4. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and you destroy the lair Crime.
5. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the beast.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LAIR
lair
 n.  the habitation of wild animals
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  He had there, it was said, a sort of field, a hole, a lair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
2  With a certain beating of the heart, he recognized the fact that he was near the lair.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
3  Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY
4  Destroy the cavern Ignorance and you destroy the lair Crime.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE LOWEST DEPTHS
5  For his lair he had the sewer of the Arche-Marion.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASS...
6  Taking one lair with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR
7  He could not believe that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of those vile creatures in that monstrous lair.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
8  The lair thus lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
9  It was a lair open to one against whom all doors were shut.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
10  If a giant had filtered this cesspool, he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
11  The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the beast.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS...
12  His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into which roguery retreated.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
13  In an instant the whole camp was in motion; the meanest soldier arousing from his lair to witness the departure of his comrades, and to share in the excitement and incidents of the hour.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
14  The Huron arose, and shook himself like a lion quitting his lair.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
15  Like a beast in its lair his soul had lain down in its own filth but the blasts of the angel's trumpet had driven him forth from the darkness of sin into the light.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  ...whose intended victim had followed her last night to her lair, and (as I believed), charged her with the crime she wished to perpetrate.
2  The kidnappers' lair was an old farm in the hills.