By day the troops lay concealed from hostile aviation in very restricted shelter.

The French troops lay on the other side of the hill.

The troops of the Amir laid hands upon him, calling him coward.

The troops lay in the trenches with their fingers on the triggers.

If Minn's battered troops laid a trap for him, the soldier didn't want to stumble blindly into it.

Theodosius and his troops immediately laid siege to Constantinople.

The dead and wounded Egyptian troops lay in heaps.

The German troops inside made excellent use of this and lay heavily entrenched.

Before the Red Army troops lay a deep ditch matched by a steep rampart on the far side.

In both places, troops brought what the besieged population most desperately needed - order - and laid the groundwork for recovery.