21.   The muscle used to make the double-A breastlette was swollen, a thick rope laid across my chest.

22.   The problem is sorting hard fact from soft opinion, a task not made easy for nonexperts by the gloss of politics laid across the dispute.

23.   Two of the sticks touched at one end but not the other and the third stick was laid across them.

24.   Using tongs, gently transfer each to a serving bowl, laying it across so that ends hang over edge of bowl.

25.   We made about a thousand latex and plaster masks and laid them across this floor.

26.   Police and medical crews worked through the night to dislodge four chained protesters who laid across the tracks in freezing temperatures, removing the last one early Wednesday afternoon.

27.   A green-and-white sign hangs above the door, showing a crudely drawn knife and spoon laid across a bowl of stew.

28.   After the attack, two bodies, one riddled with bullets, laid across the stairs of the bus parked outside the museum.

29.   He then laid across a makeshift barbecue while his cast mates shot lighter fluid onto the grill to fan the flames.

30.   In classrooms, long-stemmed yellow chrysanthemums, a traditional funeral flower in Korea, were laid across empty desks.