lay open
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His hard-shell suitcase lay open on the bed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
When it finally lay open on the table, I couldn’t help but gawk in wonder at my iPhone 13 Mini’s precisely packed guts, and I realized I was having fun!
From The Verge ● May 21, 2022
A Bible lay open to Proverbs on a dresser as a breeze turned the pages.
From Fox News ● May 28, 2019
When we arrived, DePalma’s site lay open in front of us: a desolate hump of gray, cracked earth, about the size of two soccer fields.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019
She almost fell over the book that lay open on the rug.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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