The phrase "lay overturned" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe objects that have been flipped or turned over. Here is an example sentence: "The bookshelf lay overturned on the floor, its contents scattered across the room."
On the floor, plastic foam cakes lie overturned, their cheerful messages made invisible.
Throughout the country, the streets in large cities are littered with tear-gas canisters, shop fronts are covered in spray paint, and police cars lie overturned.
Two big trucks lie overturned on the floor on the left side of the deep gallery, and to the right there is a row of storefronts that appear to be fully operational.
The canoe, lying overturned on a pair of sawhorses, has been a long winter's project, Sid doing the lion's share of the work on weekends, though the girls have been fairly diligent about the handsanding, the cutting and fitting of the fibreglass cloth, and the slow smoothing of the epoxy over it.
Briana Augustenborg won't face charges, but the exposure of her lies has surely overturned her life; Manti Te'o is going to talk to an angered press soon; Armstrong will be on TV with Oprah at nine.
Reproductive rights advocates worry that such strict laws could lay the framework for overturning Roe v. Wade.
He was sentenced to six months in jail for lying to Congress, a conviction overturned on appeal.
Martha Stewart's conviction on charges of lying to investigators should be overturned, her lawyers argued in an appeals brief filed yesterday, because of a host of errors that occurred during her trial earlier this year.
In the days before the speech, many advocates for gay rights said they hoped he would lay out a timetable for overturning the policy or otherwise offer specifics on how he will achieve his goal.
Early in the year, our hope lay in the lawsuit to overturn Prop 8, which lost in May.
