resting on

Synonyms

adjacent forth onward atop at on upon beside rest on

Examples

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. Ludwig Wittgenstein

The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them. Albert Einstein

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. Leopold von Ranke

Mulch's tongue lolled out, resting on the centaur's neck. "Mmm," he mumbled around his tongue. "Horse. Tasty" "Let's go," said Foaly nervously. "Let's go right now. Eoin Colfer

Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. Michael Faraday

Perfect as is the wing of a bird, it never could raise the bird up without resting on air. Facts are the air of a scientist. Without them you never can fly. Without them your "theories" are vain efforts. Ivan Pavlov

Words in the phrase

resting on

Close letter words and terms

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