Sentence examples for it rested on from inspiring English sources

He moved her head so that it rested on one side.

Unlike the latter, which rested its entire weight on a central spindle that had to be elevated in order for the turret to rotate, Eads' design better distributed its weight because it rested on a number of ball bearings underneath the outer edge of the turret.

It rested on the sidewalk, its nose inside the kiosk under a crumpled awning.

Two clubs in Long Island City, Queens, may close soon, and at least three indoor tennis facilities in Manhattan and one in Queens have recently closed, including the 10 Wall Street Racquet Club, which shut its doors last year because the piers it rested on were deteriorating and because the city wanted to make way for the planned downtown branch of the Guggenheim Museum.

The first specimen I showed him — Hadrurus arizonensis pallidus, the giant desert scorpion, some five inches long and nearly indistinguishable in color from the sand it rested on — was clutching a cricket in its pedipalps as I lifted the screen at the top of the terrarium.

But it rested on statements Goldwater had made indicating a loose attitude toward nuclear weapons.

At those times it rests on its feet and on its tail" [NC, p.503].

Here's the trick: does it rest on its bottom?

For one thing, it rests on a very rickety base of political support.

It rests on five elements.

But it rests on a mistake.