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His hard-shell suitcase lay open on the bed.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 19, 2023

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!

From The Verge May 21, 2022

A Bible lay open to Proverbs on a dresser as a breeze turned the pages.

From Fox News May 28, 2019

When we arrived, DePalma’s site lay open in front of us: a desolate hump of gray, cracked earth, about the size of two soccer fields.

From The New Yorker Mar. 29, 2019

A wooden box full of dirt lay open.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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