English example sentences with "lay over"

We used to play over by that grassy knoll.

An eerie stillness lay over the lake.

An eerie silence lay over the lake.

Haddock can lay over a million eggs in one spawning.

The moonlight lay over a peaceful landscape of lawns and thickets, against which the straggling ruins of the old abbey stood out in tragic outlines, truncated columns, mutilated arches, fragments of porches and shreds of flying buttresses.