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lay upon



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Huge trees lay upon it like Q-Tips on a bathroom counter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

Soot lay upon every surface, including people’s clothing.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

That turned the moisture into tiny water droplets, forming that gray and cottony-seeming sheet that lay upon the waters of the Potomac River.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2022

She’s so disdainful of the guilt society tries to lay upon successful-but-childless women that she refuses to even use the term, referring to it as the “g-word.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2018

So I dressed, and through the deep and unfamiliar dark, I crept back to my room and lay upon my maiden cot.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein


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