Influence and Lay

Influence

Influence verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.

Lay and influence are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lay" instead a verb "Influence".

Lay

Lay verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.

Influence and lay are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Influence" instead a verb "Lay".

Nearby Words: laying, laid

Common collocations

life influence life lay life
way influence way lay way
monsters influence monsters lay monsters

Both words in one sentence

  • They lay down their weapons and try to talk to the enemies... who promptly kill them all, being under the influence of similar drugs and seeing our protagonists as monsters.
  • By the end they're a pathetic bunch of tin soldiers floating around the galaxy in a derelict spaceship, with no home planet and no influence... and they still refuse to lay down and die.
  • There's also the matter of a single Jedi or Sith being able to influence the entire galaxy; is that sort of power something any one person should have when individuals will lay waste to everything just to obtain it?
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