Sentence examples for be laid upon from inspiring English sources
adjective
Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.
He sits and waits for grief to be laid upon him.
However, I don't feel that all the blame can be laid upon these organisations.
My only qualm concerns not so much the mission of Coogler's movie as its form; I wonder what weight of political responsibility can, or should, be laid upon anything that is accompanied by buttered popcorn.
The North Carolina turkey comes with strips of salty fatback that are meant to be laid upon the breast of the roasting turkey to season the meat and foster a crispy shellac of skin.
Since the report of the deaths, researchers have continued to trade barbs over many issues, including the extent of the storm's damage to the butterflies, the number of monarchs living in these areas and the extent of blame that can be laid upon the vast deforestation for the deaths.
It must also be admitted that C.I.A. too was unprepared for this type of operational plan and a heavy burden had to be laid upon the field at a time when the Tehran station was already occupied with the opening phases of Tpajax.
No siege was laid upon our shorelines.
"The hand of God is laid upon the nations," he said.
They were "paralysed with fear" and the burden was "laid upon the resources of the government of this nation".
A curse is laid upon him, and for five millenniums he lies, undisturbed, under the Egyptian sands, until foolhardy archaeologists and sleazy treasure hunters dig him out.
Her body shook so hard it rattled the aluminum slab she was laid upon, and there was an unbearable pressure inside her as the surgeon pushed the knife in.
