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.
• Guano, in layman’s terms, is seabird poop – and there’s a lot of it.
  — Sofia Couceiro, CNN, 19 June 2023
• To put that in layman’s terms: Some of our guys told us stuff.
  — Ted Rall, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2021
• There are the layman fans, and then there are the superfans.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Dec. 2019
• In layman’s terms, that means homes are flying off the shelves.
  — Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Apr. 2018
• In layman's terms, fill power impacts the loft and warmth of the jacket.
  — Amanda Constantine, Good Housekeeping, 2 Nov. 2022
• In laymen’s terms: the products are a lot more fun than say a power drill.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• In layman’s terms, that means offering the best of the best to the highest-tier shoppers.
  — Diana Nguyen, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Mar. 2019
• That winner will, in layman’s terms, be one lucky duck.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2023
• The saintly pope and Andrew, the saintly layman, both knew that if Lebanon would fail, the world may fail.
  — Nr Symposium, National Review, 6 Dec. 2020
• In layman's terms, the steel can create a surface hotter than the oven.
  — CNN Underscored, 31 Oct. 2017
• In layman’s terms, that means 28 percent is not enough to get back to fiscal health.
  — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2018
• Which, in laymen’s terms, made him a burger on a steakhouse menu.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2020
• In layman's terms, peach in any format is the worst nightmare of dark spots and dullness.
  — Allure, 8 Dec. 2021
• In layman’s terms: some minor tweaks were made, and that was good enough to meet UW’s demands.
  — Dallas News, 7 Nov. 2022
• In layman’s terms, they’re cut from a solid blue, faux silk fabric with a light sheen.
  — Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2017
• In layman’s terms, it’s called gut running, and Freeman was at his best in the fourth quarter.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 2 Jan. 2022
• In layman’s terms, that means he was shared with the club’s G League affiliate in Austin.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• In layman’s terms, the mix is a screening kit for Coronavirus.
  — Courtney King, Cincinnati.com, 28 Jan. 2020
• In more layman’s terms, the Coastal is there for the taking for anyone who wants to step up and play decent football.
  — Scooby Axson, SI.com, 29 July 2019
• In layman's terms, that translates to the Texans having a 1% chance to win the championship.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 14 Feb. 2022
• If all this sounds a bit confusing, here's a breakdown in layman's terms of how PCOS plays out in your body.
  — Lori Keong, Marie Claire, 2 Oct. 2017
• In layman’s terms, the acidic mine waste could leak downstream and into the greater Bristol Bay ecosystem.
  — Popular Science, 8 June 2020
• To the layman, the incidents looked more concerning than that.
  — The Editors, National Review, 31 Aug. 2023
• Part of the problem is that those three words are technical terms and layman language is more loose.
  — Jv Chamary, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• In layman’s terms: A heated wand is rubbed up and down your face, giving the feeling like your skin is being ironed.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 27 Sep. 2019
• In her line of work, Deborah Hanekamp is known as a Seeress, or in laymen’s terms, a female shaman.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 21 June 2017
• In laymen’s terms, Turks were not buying what the General Staff was selling, so the officers were forced to keep everyone in line through coercion.
  — Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2016
• In layman’s terms, that translates to two years of active duty, minimum, before the clock starts on a potential athletic career.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 15 June 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024