lie over

verb

lay over; lain over; lying over; lies over

intransitive verb

: to await disposal or attention at a later time

Examples of lie over in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Beyond Fest audience laughed when Carradine reacted to this lie over 40 years after the fact. Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2024 Much concern lies over the genre’s low-paying and unfair contracts, which often lack residual payments and relinquish contestants’ likenesses in perpetuity. Legal Entertainment, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 Plate destruction and recycling Most of the Pacific Ocean and some regions of the Atlantic Ocean lie over zones called convergent margins, where tectonic plates crunch against each other. Suzanne Oconnell, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024 As a myriad of lies over fertility and infidelity ensued, the show culminated in a devastating car accident in which the couple’s young daughter Emily is believed to have been killed. Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2024 The sinkhole formed at approximately 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at Gordon Moore Park in Alton, Illinois, which lies over a limestone mine operated by New Frontier Materials, the company said in a statement to the Alton Telegraph. Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 27 June 2024 Smith and her family lay over her son, Memphis, who’s nearly 2 years old. Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2024 The same day that Deadline shared the news, the Disney Channel’s official Instagram account posted a close-up photo of a Wizards pilot script as a toy wand lay over it. Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 27 Jan. 2024 Trump’s also already benefiting from some early carping about the media circus that’s lying over the horizon. Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1847, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of lie over was circa 1847

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“Lie over.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lie%20over. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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