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Example sentences for "over her"

  • The excited sentences which Edith threw over her shoulder as she walked appeared, upon examination, to contain a suggestion.

  • I'm afraid you think my brother has odd notions of entertaining his guests," she remarked to him, over her shoulder.

  • Then she put out her hand for her wrap, and as she paused, he spread it over her shoulders.

  • I have no recollection of it," she told him, with tranquil politeness, over her shoulder.

  • With this, King Sasan repented him of that which he had done with Kanmakan; whilst his mother abode without peace or comfort, nor would patience come at her call: and thus twenty heavy days passed over her.

  • She was clad in a dress of green satin, embroidered with red gold, and she was as says the poet: She lords it over her lovers in garments all of green, With open vest and collars and flowing hair beseen.

  • After standing for some time looking over her book, she said in a lighter voice, 'well, I believe I am right.

  • Then looking upwards, she uttered a single prayer for her husband, and, gliding quietly from the room, sat down by her little table and again bent over her work.

  • No, Anna, I was positively refused," Mary replied, the tears rising and almost gushing over her cheeks.

  • He could not forbear from a kindly jest with the young girl over her attentions, and Martina at once entered into the joke.

  • But Mary was too pretty, too frail for a boy; and Eudoxia advised her to pull her broad travelling hat low over her eyes as soon as she came in sight of men, or else to darken her color.

  • At this a sudden fervent longing for Orion came over her.

  • She bent, in this pursuit, over her dust-bin; she challenged to the last grain the refuse of her innocent economy.

  • Her friend took it, for a minute, however, by carrying thoughtful eyes, eyes verily portentous, over her head.

  • At last she reached the sled, and the stranger, taking off the blanket that he had worn under the rope, threw it over her shoulders.

  • Her black hair was neatly brushed and coiled in two thick lobs which hung down over her ears.

  • My mother's hat fell off, her hair became loosened and fell over her shoulders; she tried to parry the blows, but she could not do so.

  • She rang, delighted, and after giving some orders to the little maid she took me over her house.

  • She paid and rose to leave, drawing up over her shoulders an astonishing little shawl, the two ends of which hung over her arms.

  • During pauses in dictation she had a way of peering near-sightedly, over her glasses at the dapper, well-dressed traveling salesman who was rolling off the items on his sale bill.

  • Say it quick then," said Birdie, over her shoulder.

  • Pearlie glanced up at him, over her glasses.

  • Pulling off his coat, and laying it over her.

  • The whole secret of the power that Geoffrey had acquired over her was in those words.

  • Present things passed from her view as the awful doubt cast its shadow over her mind.

  • Without another word of explanation she pulled her veil down over her face, and made for the gate.

  • There's a bureau cover I started when I was at Pratt's," she said, as she straightened it over her knees.

  • Presently he turned and came back and stood over her.

  • And catching sight of me in the doorway, over her shoulder, "Has he followed me here too?

  • Janet did not reply, but sat with her pencil poised over her book.

  • Miss Grover had capability written all over her.

  • Silka looked out, too, over her sister's shoulder.

  • No, the night was so still and sultry; and, throwing it over her arm, she passed onwards to her hut.

  • She had no hat on, the sleeves of her cotton blouse were rolled up over her elbow, and she wore still the big rough apron she had donned for scrubbing.

  • But the snow was so soft that she sank in over her ankles, going deeper and deeper with every attempt which she made to wriggle herself free.

  • She caught sight of it over her shoulder, and watched it absently; then gazed into the coals again, her chin dropping on her bared chest.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "over her" 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:
    are made; ever heard; extraordinary beauty; extremely susceptible; incandescent lamp; little small; little tired; over and; over each; over half; over head and ears; over night; over the; over the fire until; over them; over twenty; over which; over whom; over yonder; overflight and navigation permitted; overtake them; overwhelming force; overwhelming numbers; past ten; thin plate; what number