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Example sentences for "over the"

  • The Satyr, too, glared at me over the Hyena-swine's hunched shoulders.

  • There's a dim half-memory of being lifted up to the gangway, and of a big round countenance covered with freckles and surrounded with red hair staring at me over the bulwarks.

  • And even as I lay there I saw, with no more interest than if it had been a picture, a sail come up towards me over the sky-line.

  • The quarter of a company of any kind of soldiers could have blown us over the precipice.

  • This wineglass has been smashed all over the place, but one of its splinters lies on the high bracket beside the mantelpiece.

  • There too the turtle doves sat over the spring, or fluttered from bough to bough of the soft white pines over my head; or the red squirrel, coursing down the nearest bough, was particularly familiar and inquisitive.

  • I sometimes try my acquaintances by such tests as this--Who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee?

  • There was no mistaking--this was the voice of his "friend and well-wisher" over the telephone.

  • The thick lower lip lapped upward over the mouth.

  • I tore down my book rack and reading lamp from over the sink.

  • It led into Wordsworth Avenue just behind Weintraub's drug store, over the rear of which hung the great girders and trestles of the "L" station, a kind of Swiss chalet straddling the street on stilts.

  • Mother always said that in time o' trouble that tall white sail used to look like an angel's wing comin' over the sea to them that was in pain.

  • Next morning, as we sat in my room waiting for breakfast to come up, we got a good deal interested in something which was going on over the way, in front of another hotel.

  • It comes in over the boat's bow, passes around a drum, and is payed out astern.

  • The reply came clearly from up the slopes of mountain, and I saw a man coming towards me over the snows.

  • There were three of them, as I have said, and we saw them come up over the curve of the horizon, beating the sea into foam with their flappers, and waving their great necks like masts as they swam.

  • She waked as I came in over the threshold, and her eyes filled with a welcome for me.

  • The boat was in deep water now, and Phorenice called upon me to come in over the side, she the while balancing nicely so that the flimsy thing should not be overset.

  • But there was no time now to go over the past.

  • She had spread her travelling cloak over the straw, and was sitting fairly comfortably, as the straw was fresh, and the evil odours from below came up to her only in a modified form.

  • With infinite precaution he kissed her twice, and then finding one little stocking, hung with its mate very neatly over the back of a chair, dropped into it a dime, rolled up in a wad of paper.

  • Over the top of the paper he glanced at her covertly from time to time.

  • A second shot put out the lamp over the musicians' stand.

  • Mac 3:55 And after this Judas ordained captains over the people, even captains over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.

  • The sooner it's over the better, for it will be terribly humiliating.

  • Marilla says she caught him hanging over the well-box four times today, trying to reach down to the dark.

  • She turned her head at Davy's question and answered dreamily, "'Over the mountains of the moon, Down the valley of the shadow.

  • It's poring, in grinding detail, over the biographies of every rotten loser who ever shot at a President.

  • In February 1989, Prophet and Knight Lightning bargained electronically over the fate of this trophy.

  • A "bulletin board system" can be formally defined as a computer which serves as an information and message-passing center for users dialing-up over the phone-lines through the use of modems.

  • It has already been noticed that directly over the platform on which Hester Prynne stood was a kind of balcony, or open gallery, appended to the meeting-house.

  • The decision once made, a glow of strange enjoyment threw its flickering brightness over the trouble of his breast.

  • Round and round they go--out there, over the rim--out of sight.

  • When they refused she began turning over the sheets of dance music which lay upon the piano.

  • They sat down and looked out over the bay; it was very still, the sea was rippling faintly, and lines of green and blue were beginning to stripe it.

  • Mary took the kettle to the well, and soon reappearing, placed it over the stove, where it was soon purring and steaming, a sort of censer of hospitality and good cheer.

  • When he arrived in Paris he had his luggage put on a cab and trundled off slowly through the gay streets, over the bridge, and along the narrow ways of the Latin Quarter.

  • I wonder if he'd let me go over the house.

  • Over the chimney-piece was a dirty engraving of a prize-fight.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "over the" 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:
    alarm clock; beauteous maiden; carried through; critical examination; her hands; here alone; impending evil; length remarked; other bird; over and over again; over forty; over head and ears; over hill and dale; over night; over thar; over the fire until; over them; over twenty; over which; over with; overflight and navigation permitted; overseas territory; overwhelming force; shall look; talking nonsense; teach thee