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View definitions for lay on

lay on

verb as in apply

verb as in confer

verb as in levy

verb as in present

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"I was in bed watching TV, while my brother lay on the street dying and I wasn’t there to protect him," she said.

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Still wobbly, he fell onto a vending cart and lay on his back, looking up at the reincarnated sky as it faded to pink.

His lawyers on Wednesday petitioned the court to throw out a video from 2016, which shows Mr Combs kicking his former girlfriend Cassie Ventura as she lay on a hotel hallway floor.

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Behind the man, a woman lay on her left side, almost naked, on a crumpled white sheet.

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Hamas fighters killed by Israeli soldiers as they fought their way into the kibbutz still lay on the neat lawns, turning black as they decomposed in the strong Mediterranean sun.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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