lie on/upon

phrasal verb

lay on/upon; lain on/upon; lying on/upon; lies on/upon

: to affect (someone) in a specified way

Sorrow lay heavily on him.

Guilt lies on his conscience.

She keeps herself healthy so her years lie lightly upon her.

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Upon being captured, the prisoners were shot after being made to lie on the ground unarmed, said the report. —

Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024 Therefore, the best way to tell if a mattress is your Goldilocks fit is to lie on it, plain and simple, either by visiting a store to compare products or planning to make good use of the trial periods many online mattress-in-a-box brands offer. —

Heather Cruickshank, SELF, 21 Nov. 2024 Westtown and Wantage lie on either side of the New York-New Jersey border, about 10 miles east of Port Jervis, the junction where both states border Pennsylvania. —

Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 18 Nov. 2024 The gardens lie on a property named on the National Register of Historic Places, which was formerly farmland owned by plant and landscaping connoisseurs Theodore and Martha Lee Klein. —

Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 14 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for lie on/upon