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Example sentences for "over and"

  • He went on dancing his toy chickens, and saying, over and over, 'Chicken-fight at your own fireside.

  • Over and over--twenty times in an hour--this was repeated.

  • Over and over we went into the thickest mass of bodies, making a way through the people, until at last we came to a stop in a perfect mound of writhing forms and waving legs and arms.

  • The river moved it over and joined it to Mississippi.

  • Her very words sounded like infinite repetitions of something he had heard, over and over.

  • I've told you, over and over, I'm not going out.

  • She had written him that, over and over, in the long letters she had made a point of sending him.

  • More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition.

  • Over and above; distinct from; in addition to.

  • Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than.

  • But there is an over and above of wickedness which they see not.

  • He kept saying it over and over, under the impression that if he only repeated it enough, the door would open.

  • I never see anything so beautiful," Rachel was saying, over and over.

  • He kept repeating it, over and over; meanwhile Ezekiel moved about in confusion, digging the toes of his shoes into the gravel to hide it.

  • But they kept on saying it over and over as she ran along.

  • But he had had the same things over and over, over and over, Christmas after Christmas.

  • Then she got her square of patchwork off the table and sat down and finished sewing it over and over.

  • Letitia had to sew a square of patchwork "over and over" every day.

  • Instead, over and over he heaped up his own poor defense: "If I had waited, he might have patched it up with her.

  • He turned it over and over, and it grew more and more familiar.

  • He repeated it over and over in his mind.

  • All serious trouble to Kansas affairs is over and gone.

  • I wish you would learn of Everett what he would take, over and above a discharge for all the trouble we have been at, to take his business out of our hands and give it to somebody else.

  • Martha declared she must have at least a few hours in which to think it over and Galusha, of course, agreed.

  • The Sweet By and By" droned on, over and over, in the dark stuffiness of the crowded room.

  • And after your wedding he will be in a better humor; he'll know it's over and not up to him any more.

  • Mr. Hunter turned it over and over, and shook his head.

  • Then, with his hueless lips compressed, he seized the blank letter from his astonished tenant, and looked at it, turning it over and over.

  • Over and over, unphrased, our minds echo lines of that verse found in the pocket of the soldier dead at Gallipoli: "We saw the powers of darkness put to flight, We saw the morning break.

  • Over and over he got to his feet and spoke aloud: "Now I will go.

  • Over and over a repulsion seized him so strongly that his knees gave way and he fell back on the bed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "over and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each particular; its author; juvenile literature; left over; living waters; over again; over and; over each; over forty; over half; over head and ears; over his; over thar; over the fire till; over the fire until; over them; over whom; over with; overseas department; overtake them; overwhelming majority; public land; second marriage; social relations; spined stickleback; will cure