Sentence examples for rest on someone from inspiring English sources

"Thank God for wheelie bags!" she exhales, and explains that she prefers to do her own make-up, unless she's being shot for Vogue, in which case the "responsibility" to look good has to rest on someone else's shoulders.

I struggled at home and at school, but even the bigger problems seemed to ultimately rest on someone else's shoulders.

But because observation and evidence are crucial to the investigation of a crime – the motive for which will often rest on who someone was or what they possessed or desired – crime writers routinely provide a mass of social detail: menus, train timetables, fashion labels, shops, newspaper stories.

The police appear to be out of ideas, and the family's only real hope rests on someone coming forward.

If you're a fan, you know you are probably in for chronic heartburn when your hopes are resting on someone known as Ron-Ron.

One former colleague recalled an event at which Mr. Scrushy, sharing the stage, was outraged when the spotlight rested on someone else and told the operator to point the "spotlight back on me".

Madam has this week broken her social media silence by posting some mesmeric footage of her own gyrating backside, and a still photo of what appears to be her cleavage resting on someone else's bottom.

I settled in, gingerly seeing what it might feel like to rest my entire weight on someone.

Some mothers might also not be comfortable if you rest your head on someones boobs.

She has not availed herself of what the rest of us do — crying on someone's shoulder.

However, HP is unlikely to rest its tablet's future on someone else's defunct brand name.