The last word, thick with irony, lay heavily in the air after he spoke.

Neither did her left breast laying heavily on his shoulder.

The responsibility of success or failure lay heavily upon me.

The child soon fell asleep, and lay heavily in his mother's lap.

We had no water for washing and the dust lay heavily upon us.

She sat back in the armchair by the fire and the child lay heavily against her.

It was high noon and the heat lay heavily on his head.

The silence lay heavily on them, it was so unusual.

But the effects of his recent dream lay heavily upon him.

The silence lay heavily between them as they looked into one another's eyes.