lay upon
Example Sentences
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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
The ceiling was thick with cobwebs, the floor coated in grime; moldy and rotting food lay upon the table amidst a mass of crusted pots.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
