lay open

His hard-shell suitcase lay open on the bed.

The seventeenth-century English polymath Thomas Hobbes is said to have glanced at a copy of The Elements that lay open in a library when he was a 40-year-old man.

By the end of the show, my notebook lay open on the coffee table filled with notes and sketches.

When it finally lay open on the table, I couldn’t help but gawk in wonder at my iPhone 13 Mini’s precisely packed guts, and I realized I was having fun!

Edna seated herself at the piano, and softly picked out with one hand the bars of a piece of music which lay open before her.