1.   Along the sidewalks, women walked with heavy baskets of produce hooked on bamboo poles laid across their shoulders.

2.   Lyddy interrupted her reverie with the cream silk dress laid across her arms like an offering.

3.   There are four pianos in the pit, two with sheets of paper laid across the strings to produce dull percussive sounds.

4.   Hillsden damped a hand towel and laid it across her forehead.

5.   He made that sign of two fingers laid across two fingers.

6.   They had to pick their way around the rest of it, because the floors were mainly gone, although some big holes still had carpet laid across them.

7.   He took off the heavy overcoat he was wearing and laid it across the top of the filing cabinet.

8.   French farmers habitually use metal spikes laid across the road to harrass lorry drivers carrying food imports.

9.   The state railway, disrupted on Monday when farmers laid blazing barricades across the tracks, faces more trouble.

10.   A flap on the back of the seatback can be unlatched and laid across to cover some, but not all, of the gap between the folded seats.