lay upon
Example Sentences
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Huge trees lay upon it like Q-Tips on a bathroom counter.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2023
Soot lay upon every surface, including people’s clothing.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
That turned the moisture into tiny water droplets, forming that gray and cottony-seeming sheet that lay upon the waters of the Potomac River.
From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2022
She’s so disdainful of the guilt society tries to lay upon successful-but-childless women that she refuses to even use the term, referring to it as the “g-word.”
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2018
She tried to keep him in her mind—to picture, as she lay upon her own cot, how he was growing and what he was doing.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
