How to Use layman in a Sentence
layman
noun
- For a layman, he knows a lot about the law.
- He's an important layman in his church.
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Guano, in layman’s terms, is seabird poop – and there’s a lot of it.
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Sofia Couceiro,
CNN,
19 June 2023
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To put that in layman’s terms: Some of our guys told us stuff.
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Ted Rall,
WSJ,
1 Apr. 2021
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There are the layman fans, and then there are the superfans.
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Chelsey Sanchez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
10 Dec. 2019
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In layman’s terms, that means homes are flying off the shelves.
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Richard Webner,
San Antonio Express-News,
30 Apr. 2018
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In layman's terms, fill power impacts the loft and warmth of the jacket.
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Amanda Constantine,
Good Housekeeping,
2 Nov. 2022
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In laymen’s terms: the products are a lot more fun than say a power drill.
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Southern Living,
1 May 2017
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In layman’s terms, that means offering the best of the best to the highest-tier shoppers.
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Diana Nguyen,
Harper's BAZAAR,
22 Mar. 2019
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That winner will, in layman’s terms, be one lucky duck.
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Chloe Berger,
Fortune,
10 Jan. 2023
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The saintly pope and Andrew, the saintly layman, both knew that if Lebanon would fail, the world may fail.
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Nr Symposium,
National Review,
6 Dec. 2020
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In layman's terms, the steel can create a surface hotter than the oven.
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CNN Underscored,
31 Oct. 2017
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In layman’s terms, that means 28 percent is not enough to get back to fiscal health.
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Salvador Rizzo,
Washington Post,
11 Jan. 2018
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Which, in laymen’s terms, made him a burger on a steakhouse menu.
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Kevin Sherrington,
Dallas News,
6 Feb. 2020
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In layman's terms, peach in any format is the worst nightmare of dark spots and dullness.
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Allure,
8 Dec. 2021
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In layman’s terms: some minor tweaks were made, and that was good enough to meet UW’s demands.
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Dallas News,
7 Nov. 2022
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In layman’s terms, they’re cut from a solid blue, faux silk fabric with a light sheen.
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Josh Baugh,
San Antonio Express-News,
15 Dec. 2017
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In layman’s terms, it’s called gut running, and Freeman was at his best in the fourth quarter.
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Mike Preston,
baltimoresun.com,
2 Jan. 2022
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In layman’s terms, that means he was shared with the club’s G League affiliate in Austin.
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Jeff McDonald,
ExpressNews.com,
15 Apr. 2020
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In layman’s terms, the mix is a screening kit for Coronavirus.
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Courtney King,
Cincinnati.com,
28 Jan. 2020
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In more layman’s terms, the Coastal is there for the taking for anyone who wants to step up and play decent football.
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Scooby Axson,
SI.com,
29 July 2019
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In layman's terms, that translates to the Texans having a 1% chance to win the championship.
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Matt Young,
Chron,
14 Feb. 2022
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If all this sounds a bit confusing, here's a breakdown in layman's terms of how PCOS plays out in your body.
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Lori Keong,
Marie Claire,
2 Oct. 2017
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In layman’s terms, the acidic mine waste could leak downstream and into the greater Bristol Bay ecosystem.
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Popular Science,
8 June 2020
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To the layman, the incidents looked more concerning than that.
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The Editors,
National Review,
31 Aug. 2023
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Part of the problem is that those three words are technical terms and layman language is more loose.
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Jv Chamary,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2021
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In layman’s terms: A heated wand is rubbed up and down your face, giving the feeling like your skin is being ironed.
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The Editors,
Good Housekeeping,
27 Sep. 2019
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In her line of work, Deborah Hanekamp is known as a Seeress, or in laymen’s terms, a female shaman.
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Brooke Bobb,
Vogue,
21 June 2017
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Fealty to the script and to the vision of the cinematographer—the devotion to the deception—requires adjustments to the world of real things which can seem, to a layman used to making do, unduly elaborate.
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Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
6 May 2024
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The eloquent introduction offers great insights into the historical side and is written in a way that the layman can understand.
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Mark Littler,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2024
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