Sentence examples for it lay upon from inspiring English sources

For a second it lay upon the surface, then it gradually seeped away until only a flotsam of dead insects speckled the stones.

But Scott, upholding that women should seek "honourably and sanely the enfranchisement which is their right", commented on the "futility" of her act, claiming that the "horrible responsibility" for it lay upon the shoulders of the leaders of the militant movement.

It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body!" As it happens, the builder of the Dakota, Edward Clark, had even more ambitious plans for the neighborhood.

The PVE correction method can be applied for any PET-CT scanner in a simple manner, given that it lies upon experimental measurements easy to be performed with a PET scanner and a standard phantom of easy availability.

By Robert Hutchinson The New Yorker, September 23 , 1950 P. 32When you are gone, I lie upon your bed View Article By Rebecca Mead By Anthony Lane By Jia Tolentino By George Packer.

They danced on it to Kay-Kay's boom-box music; they loped around its rubber surface singing about the Muffin Man; they lay upon it in the dark, after it had absorbed the sun all day, watching as the stars popped on.

When struck with a hammer, the bone had remained intact while the anvil upon which it lay had been shattered.

I lay upon it, clenching my fists through three stinging injections of local anesthesia, and settled in for the procedure as Cat Stevens' "Moonshadow" played over the intercom.

It lies unconformably upon steeply inclined flagstones, the interpretation of which is a matter of continuing debate.

Its longest spacing lay upon the periodical spacing between highly oriented PVA chains, i.e. its alkyl chains were across PVA chains.

Fast forward to 60 million years ago -- that is when the Colorado Plateau began uplifting to expose the trees to oxygen, fracturing it into large pieces that lay upon Earth today for us all to go and see.