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How to use lair in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Lair means a place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground. Example: “There was evil laughter coming from the villain's lair as he was contemplating how he was going to defeat his heroic foe.”

Examples of lair by meaning

nounA place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.

  • “Would you go into the dragon's lair, my peerless Wiglaf?”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47

nounA grave; a cemetery plot.

  • We appreciate that this is a sensitive issue for lair owners and would like to assure them that the maintenance of the cemetery is carried out in a sensitive and dignified manner.2018 August 2, BBC News, quoting Aberdeen City Council, “Dad 'will sleep by son's grave' to stop council clearing mementoes”, in BBC News

More sentences with lair

  • There was evil laughter coming from the villain's lair as he was contemplating how he was going to defeat his heroic foe.From the entry evil laughter
  • “The plan,” Violet said, “is to fight our way into the lair, find Charlie, and help him.2010, Dean Lorey, Monster War (Nightmare Academy; 3), Harper, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry easy peasy mac and cheesy
  • At once he feared his hidden lair had been looted while he slept.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41. From the entry spellbound
  • We stood, not in the lion's den, but in the serpent's lair.1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter 24, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. From the entry lion's den
  • People bomb cats' lairs with targeted viruses and deadly poisons.2017, Abigail Tucker, The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World, Farmington Hills, MI: Thorndike Press…. From the entry felinicide
  • If we were riding for Nidhug's lair, I didn't need to turn into a wolfsicle along the way.2015, Anne Marsh, Bound by the Viking, unnumbered page. From the entry wolfsicle
  • The enticing, homey scent of apple pie wafted into the hallway as she beckoned them into her lair.2011 April 12, Beth Kendrick, chapter 29, in The Bake-Off, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN. From the entry apple pie
  • Very quickly it becomes evident that these webworks are part of an unaccountably large lair of thousands of spiders.1990, Noël Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart, New York: Routledge. From the entry webwork
  • Stentoriously the Countess snored in her lair.1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire. From the entry stentoriously
  • At night, a cryptid known as the Grootslang is supposed to emerge from the cave and lure prey back into its lair.2014, Jamie Frater, Listverse.com's Epic Book of Mind-Boggling Lists: Unbelievable Facts and Astounding Trivia on Movies, Music, Crime…. From the entry grootslang
  • That afternoon, I summoned a Xorn—an earth elemental noted for its speed—and asked it to scout the caves of the Dragon's lair for me.2010, Roger Bourke White, Rostov Rising: The Tales of Baron Rostov, page 229. From the entry xorn
  • By manipulating the flow of magic, Eragon quickly descended from the Ra'zac's lair—which the insubstantial wall of stone once again hid—to the ledge.2008, Christopher Paolini, “Rider and Ra'zac”, in Brisingr, pages 67-8. From the entry insubstantial
  • “I felt sorry for Tom, in particular,” confessed Robinson, having seen the Leicester teenager thrown whole into the wolvish lair of the magnificently threatening Tuqiri.2006 June 19, Chris Hewett, “Unnatural selection leaves England way behind Wallabies”, in The Independent, number 6,138, page 52, column 3. From the entry wolvish
  • Here we met with the large and deep lairs of the porcupine (Hystrix cristata) and also of the earth-pig, a devourer of ants and termites.1928, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Slaves of the sun, page 149. From the entry earth-pig
  • The clanging and groaning of the train came nearer, and it staggered slowly into the station like a prey- laden monster into its lair.1920, Edith Wharton, chapter XXIX, in The Age of Innocence. From the entry clang
  • The walls, which are fixed direct into the ground without a plinth, are made of wattle and plastered with a thin lair of mud or cowdung.1912, Central Provinces (India), Central Provinces District Gazetteers, page 96. From the entry direct
  • It's set beneath the car park like a nuclear bunker, or a Bond-villain lair, and like everywhere else that's unavoidable in Scotland, is a shrine to all things sellably Scottish.2018, Patrick Kincaid, The Continuity Girl. From the entry sellably

Meaning of lair

  1. noun A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
  2. noun A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
  3. noun A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.

Full definition of lair

Questions about lair in a sentence

How do you use lair in a sentence?
Lair is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There was evil laughter coming from the villain's lair as he was contemplating how he was going to defeat his heroic foe.”
What is a short sentence with lair?
“Stentoriously the Countess snored in her lair.”
What does lair mean?
Lair means a place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lair (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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