rest on
Example Sentences
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Behind him some eat or line up for coffee, while others try to rest on air mattresses or sleeping mats.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Legal codes, he suggests, exist to regulate behavior that evolution shaped, and so should, in his view, rest on an understanding of where that behavior comes from.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
She fell from around 13,000 feet to about 11,500 feet, nearly the length of five football fields, before coming to rest on the stratovolcano.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
This argument would rest on more solid ground if only small divergences existed between the blue-chip-dominated Dow and the tech-heavy Nasdaq.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
It came to rest on the Abbey leader.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
