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Example sentences for "rested upon"

  • He allowed his gaze to wander beyond the waters of a lagoon; until it rested upon a clump of trees that rose ragged in the background.

  • When she had reseated herself, and glanced in the direction of the table, she saw the man pointing her out to the pastor, whose eyes, for a moment, rested upon her in curiosity.

  • After a time, it rested upon a street that led down to the wide thoroughfare.

  • The crank-pin is rested upon a piece of copper D interposed between it and the iron block E to prevent damage to the finished face of the crank-pin.

  • In marking these lines the cross head should be rested upon a table or plate as in Fig.

  • The work should not be rested upon metal, but upon wood.

  • The head of the pin should be rested upon a block of lead, so that it will not get damaged.

  • The first thing that their eyes rested upon was a small but exquisite painting of the marriage of St. Catherine, by Paul Veronese, and before it they paused for several minutes without uttering a word.

  • She paused; for the dim eye of the victim, as it rested upon her, grew suddenly bright.

  • We lifted the canoe and pushed it through an open window into the little store-room, where it rested upon an unoccupied counter.

  • Just at this time a loud shout from the negroes on shore attracted my attention, and I rested upon my oars, while a boat-load of women and children paddled out to me.

  • Home of the Alligator (101K) The soft, muddy shores of the hammock were in one place enveloped in a thicket of reeds, and here I rested upon my oars to select a convenient landing-place.

  • The soft, muddy shores of the hammock were in one place enveloped in a thicket of reeds, and here I rested upon my oars to select a convenient landing-place.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rested upon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acute pain; call the; cannot understand; chronic inflammation; first love; five regiments; gills decurrent; good creature; had died; just arrived; landscape painting; larger portion; ounces each; overtake them; raise himself; rested upon; separate state; shall destroy; she didn; virtue and; volatile liquid; would see