lay upon

Huge trees lay upon it like Q-Tips on a bathroom counter.

By lifting Garfield's bedsheet as he lay upon it, a group of doctors and attendants gently shifted him from his bed onto a stretcher.

That turned the moisture into tiny water droplets, forming that gray and cottony-seeming sheet that lay upon the waters of the Potomac River.

When she reentered, Robert was turning over magazines, sketches, and things that lay upon the table in great disorder.

Edna and Robert both sat upon the ground—that is, he lay upon the ground beside her, occasionally picking at the hem of her muslin gown.