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How to use lair in a sentence

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This animal is intelligent, seeing if she is a threat, protecting its hunting grounds, or near by lair.
Bats can be observed emerging from their lair every evening at sunset between mid-March and November.
When she had 'the mulligrubs' she would retreat to her lair in the sitting-room.
Some of the elements of the gangster genre, such as the criminal holed up in his lair shooting it out with the cops, are here for the first time.
The spoor was fresher, and the side trails of the leopard's continued presence in the area told them they were approaching her lair.
It was a bit too clean and antiseptic to be really considered an evil lair.
Sophia gathered that this place was not his home, but his lair, his secret study.
They held the sacred Ruminalis fig tree in respect and the nearby Lupercal cave was pointed out as the she-wolf's lair.
One day as she was bathing a taniwha seized her and dragged her down into his lair below the lake.
They would have no compunction about silencing a fellow countryman who'd discovered their hidden lair.
There he saw that his dogs had roused a wild boar from its lair, and he set off on a chase.
A musky smell hangs in the air-not unpleasant, but more suggestive of a mammal's lair than a bird's nest.
A slave had come to the entrance of the dragon's lair, saw a hoard of treasure and gold, and fled with a jewel-studded golden cup.
If she hesitates, the male again pops in and out of his lair until she is finally tempted inside.
Dacoits and wild beasts from the surrounding forests used it as their lair.
Would she lead me to some isolated lair in the wilderness that was filled with walking zombies?
Her eyes studied more clues that let her to piece together that this was indeed the lair of the criminal they were looking for.
What if they use these results to start building nuclear weapons in a secret, underground, mountain lair?
Thus it came to pass that one of the islands of the Archipelago of Bermuda, erstwhile the haunt of buccaneers, became the lair of another gang.
It is true that we later found no evidence of potions or magical weapons in her lair.
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Examples from Classical Literature
An angry snarling, suggesting that of a wild animal disturbed in its lair, proclaimed the arousing of taximan Thomas Brian.
It looked like a keepsake the megatherium had hoped to save from the usurpers of its lair.
They went up-stream, although it might lead to the very lair of the cave bear, because there was no other way to go.
But Tyr, the brave swordsman, was willing to bring food to the Wolf's lair.
The scenes are laid along the waters of the Cumberland, the lair of moonshiner and feudsman.
Four or five hours are often spent by the most skilful harbourer in tracking a warrantable stag to his lair.
The boar was in his lair, and the outrider who had turned him aside answered for him.
Officers and men were dashing, as only Britons can dash, each striving to outrush the other towards the lair of the enemy.
There the old dolmen, beneath which the grey wolf that ate the two children of Tornic had its lair.
He would have carried snare, rabbit and all off for a guzzle in his own lair.
The country was at that time ravaged by a dragon whose lair was a great pond near the royal city of silene.
Saying no word, out of his lair he came with that terrible sword of his aloft.
The other division of malaria-hunters pursued the trail of the anopheles to her lair.
For the boys, finding the lair of the silver fox would not insure his capture.
It is used by their prickers and huntsmen when the beast hath not fled, but is still in its lair.
When the brach started this from its lair, he shot it with his bow, in which he had placed a full sharp arrow.
As he spoke, a douanier lounged out of his little whitewashed lair, and asked for that which Terry had just said he had not.
Why not enter the reeds, as is our fashion in the Land of Kush, and rouse the lions from sleep in their own lair?
The territory of Samnium was not even opened up for settlement, but left as a lair for wild beasts.
The only way to get close to the archfiend is to infiltrate a ping-pong tournament that Feng organises every year in his secret jungle lair.
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