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lay on

verb as in apply

verb as in confer

verb as in levy

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For the wolf was so large that when she lay on her side, curved neatly against one wall of the cave, all three Incorrigibles could nestle cozily against her.

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He’d look at the color of the sky at sunset and know what weather lay on the horizon: “Red sky at night, sailors’ delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning.”

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They lay on the ocean floor, still stacked as they had been in the ship’s hull, and next to them lay the remnants of tin ingots.

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The sunken ship lay on the ocean floor for more than seventy-two years until, on August 19, 2017, a team headed by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen discovered it lying some 18,000 feet beneath the sea.

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McQuillan then stabbed Mr Beaton with a machete while he lay on the road badly injured.

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

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