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Example sentences for "overs"

Lexicographically close words:
overrules; overruling; overrun; overrunning; overruns; oversaw; oversea; overseas; oversee; overseeing
  1. Baynes, the odd man, had missed a chance a few overs back from standing too deep.

  2. Adair, fortified by food and rest, was bowling really well, and his first half-dozen overs had to be watched carefully.

  3. It is enough to say that they ran on much the same lines as the third and fourth overs of the match.

  4. In more than one of the short stop-overs in the capital he had found his father still occupying the private suite at the Inter-Mountain, and now and again there was a meal shared in the more or less crowded café.

  5. For two overs not a ball worth fielding rolls his way.

  6. In two overs Pip had taken eight wickets (doing the hat-trick incidentally) for no runs.

  7. After two inglorious overs Pip retired once more to second slip, with his inscrutable countenance as inscrutable as ever, but his heart almost bursting beneath his white shirt, with shame and humiliation and a downright grief.

  8. Well, you may play him in that match, on the understanding that he is not to bowl for more than five overs at a time.

  9. It takes common sense to make good soup, as well as time and patience, and one must learn to be guided by the taste if trying to use up left-overs instead of following a regular recipe.

  10. Besides, from any reasonable quantity of left-overs there would probably be enough for four people.

  11. Our little cook should be taught the first thing how to make a good salad dressing, for into a salad it is almost always possible to turn the left-overs that otherwise might be thrown out.

  12. I did not say which luncheons were made from left-overs and which were not, but some of them are, you can see for yourself.

  13. Now do two menus for January and use up left-overs again.

  14. If you feel you must not eat up such left-overs at luncheon, and of course you ought to feel so, and yet there is not really enough to make a second dessert as it is, you have to face a problem at once.

  15. Now make a second dinner and use the left-overs of this one.

  16. If he finds out he is dining on left-overs and dried beef and scrags of mutton, I am afraid he will think me a pretty poor sort of housekeeper.

  17. I should think you could use left-overs of canned fruit for pudding sauces.

  18. There should be an equal number of cross-overs which contain both lethals.

  19. The number of single cross-overs between cherry and lemon and between lemon and vermilion are also consistent with this assumption.

  20. This value shows that there actually occurs only about 21 per cent of the double cross-overs which from the values of the single cross-overs are expected to occur in this section of the chromosome.

  21. The new lethal was very close to lethal 1, as shown by the rarity of the surviving sons, which are cross-overs between lethal 1 and the new lethal that we may call lethal 1a.

  22. The double cross-overs on this view are yellow club (3) and vermilion (3).

  23. The four smaller classes are cross-overs between eosin and vermilion.

  24. This order is confirmed by the result that the number of cross-overs between fused and vermilion is greater than that between bar and vermilion.

  25. And of his daughter Mary, who caused the Church of St. Mary Overs in Southwark to be built; and of the building of London Bridge.

  26. No menu is shown for Saturday night when, if a meal is served, it may consist of popular dishes such as chicken in some form, waffles or steaks, along with such left-overs as it may be desirable to use.

  27. Stars indicate those recipes in which left-overs may be used to particular advantage.

  28. Using left-overs may mean very little change and substitution, or may require complete revision of the day's meals.

  29. Net food cost is total food cost less the value of usable left-overs b.

  30. Left-overs must be used, for it is only by constant care that the food cost can be kept down to a minimum.

  31. A star has been used to indicate those dishes in which left-overs may be used to particular advantage.

  32. It requires a good deal of ingenuity to use these left-overs in some other form so as to maintain variety and that element of surprise which is so essential.

  33. The sight of the turn-overs made Jo sober again; and when the two went out to their daily tasks, they looked sorrowfully back at the window where they were accustomed to see their mother's face.

  34. There was a momentary lull, broken by Hannah, who stalked in, laid two hot turn-overs on the table, and stalked out again.

  35. The least objectionable way of serving them as left-overs is to sauté them.

  36. BAKED LEFT-OVERS One cup of Armour's Star Ham chopped fine, one half cup of bread crumbs and one half cup of chopped hard-boiled eggs.

  37. Some of his vices and eccentricities have been chronicled in a little tract of great rarity, entitled "The True History of the Life and Death of John Overs, and of his Daughter Mary, who caused the Church of St. Mary Overs to be built.

  38. John Overs was a Southwark ferryman, and he obtained, by paying an annual sum to the city authorities, a monopoly in the trade of conveying passengers across the river.

  39. John Overs was of a disposition so wretched and miserly, that he even begrudged his servants their necessary food.

  40. Mary Overs had no sympathy with the avarice and selfishness of her parent: she grew up endowed with amiability, and with a true maiden's heart to love.

  41. John Overs was a miser, living in the old days when popery flourished, and friars abounded in England.

  42. I'll never forget those splendid pop-overs that you made the first time you ever tried.

  43. The percolator was bubbling and the pop-overs were nearly done when they heard Mr. MacGregor's step.

  44. When Bob had finished removing the pop-overs from their pans, the two men took their places at the table to the merry tune of the sizzling bacon Bettina was broiling.

  45. He probably won't know left-overs from the real thing," said Bob.

  46. A number of little left-overs in the house may be used to take their place, adding zest to the meat, and are more economical and more wholesome.

  47. MEAT As meat is the most costly and extravagant of all articles of food, it behooves the housewife to save all left-overs and work them over into other dishes.

  48. Seeds and roots and bend-overs and stuck-ins," said Prue.

  49. Seeds and roots and bend-overs and stuck-ins' take in about all of them, and we are not apt to forget it.

  50. And if Roland had received the balls that were being sent down to his partner, there is little doubt that a couple of overs would have seen the end of the match.

  51. During the next four overs only eight runs were scored; four of these were from carefully placed singles, off the fifth and sixth balls in the over.

  52. This was largely due to three erratic overs that had been sent down by an ecclesiastical student from Wells who had bowled, perhaps in earnest of future compromise, on the leg theory, with his field placed upon the off.

  53. But the sky was blue and the sun was shining, and he would, no doubt, be warm enough after he had sent down a couple of overs at the nets.

  54. Toddles' inventory of the contents of the chest had been hurried--but intimate.

  55. The bowler shall be allowed to change ends as often as he pleases, provided only that he does not bowl two overs consecutively in one innings.

  56. The ball shall be bowled in overs of five balls from each wicket alternately.

  57. A dessert can be prepared and be cooking as breakfast dishes are washed, and at the time left overs are put away they can be arranged ready for serving, as in the case of poultry or meat to be served cold.

  58. In hot weather, let your first order of meat be small, and dispose of left overs as rapidly as possible.

  59. Have a good supply of cheap bowls, plates, and saucers to hold left overs in the refrigerator, thus avoiding one possibility for breakage of the table china.

  60. These various left overs add much to the flavor of the soup and can be used in a thickened soup which is like the bouillon strained and thickened.

  61. Generally speaking you make the trebles over the same number of stitches as you made overs on the needle, which should always be an even number.

  62. Overs can only be used in conjunction with other stitches.

  63. For the preceding treble, you pass first through 4 loops only, then make 4 more overs for the other half of the treble, and finish the last loops one by one.

  64. To facilitate the passage of the needle, keep the overs in their place with the thumb and forefinger of the left hand.

  65. Two overs later the new batsman had succumbed to Jan after a lofty couple through the slips; but A.

  66. But between the overs the spectres of the early afternoon were at his elbow, and in one such pause he espied Haigh in the flesh watching from the ring.

  67. After three overs Jan took himself off, and watched the rest of the innings from various positions in the field.

  68. We've been going far too slow these last few overs as it is.

  69. Adair, fortified by food and rest, was bowling really well, and his first half dozen overs had to be watched carefully.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    overseas department; overseas territory