The word 'rests' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as both a verb (meaning to come to a stop or to take a break) and a noun (meaning a break or relaxation). Example sentence: After a long day of exploring the city, we decided to take a rest in a nearby park.
But what if this slab of received thinking rests on shaky foundations?
Yet Johnson's ability to refresh the voters others cannot reach rests on a substantial amount of electoral sand.
A line of unused chairs rests in the assessment area, but all patients are treated on camp beds or blue mattresses.
When the boredom becomes too much for her, she rests her schnozzle in the crook of my arm and gazes up at me, big eyes pleading.
Both the monument to her in St Pancras, and the grave in which she currently rests in Bournemouth, bear her birth name.
Which is just as well, as much of the Cheesegrater's claim to be special, to be more than just another commercial tower, rests on the zone beneath its overhanging mass, described as a "public space".
HMRC's defence rests on the findings of the NAO report that the deal was "reasonable".
What about our children?" The camera then rests on text that reads: "If we wash our hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless we side with the powerful – we don't remain neutral".
You can make the batter the day before but the madeleines will be lighter if the batter rests for just one hour.
He wrote: "The responsibility for the crime of the murder of the whole Jewish nationality in Poland rests first of all on those who are carrying it out.
The prosecution rests on a trove of videos, apparently seized from the journalists, presented as evidence in the trial.
