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lay on

verb as in apply

verb as in confer

verb as in levy

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At the heavily damaged Manay government hospital, patients lay on beds outside waiting for treatment.

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Corden said they bought two giant Cadbury's Easter eggs, and lay on the hotel bed, opened them and laid there with chocolate eggs on their faces.

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We lay on our backs and let the swells gently lift us, then fall.

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She lay on the road for five days after being hit by shell fire, before she was carried to the camp for people displaced by the conflict.

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“Death, at the time, was everywhere. Death lay on battlefields and in graveyards, rotting and decayed; on church altars and in funeral parlors, embalmed and pallid and waxen as candles, dire illustrations of the consequences of constitutional failure.”

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

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