1.   An ironing board in the living room is a makeshift desk, atop which lie a phone and planner.

2.   Blum said he found himself lying atop several people.

3.   A thin glass cover lies atop the parchment to hold it flat.

4.   De Boer had discovered that the Temple of Apollo lies atop the crossroads of two geologic faults.

5.   In the doubles competition, the taller luger usually lies atop the shorter, while the luger on the bottom directs the sled by slight movements of his shoulders.

6.   In his office, a dried piranha lies atop a bookshelf stocked with the picture-heavy Eyewitness Visual Encyclopedia.

7.   Lying atop the nest was the strange-looking skeleton of a previously unknown dinosaur.

8.   The double doors to the shrine are locked with three different-sized padlocks that lie atop one another like petals.

9.   People, some dead or dying, lie atop piles of filth.

10.   A dried wreath lies atop the rubble of a factory complex that crumbled in seconds during a devastating earthquake a year ago.