Sentence examples for keen over from inspiring English sources

This is you at the doorway, unobserved, while your aunts and uncles keen over the body.

It never does any harm to seem keen over the phone, in my view.

They race out to the near-empty lot and as a doctor examines the smashed head of a prone valet parker, other guests ignore the battered victim and keen over their lost cars.

The combination of epic sweep (including the quoted allusion to one of Emily Dickinson's Civil War masterpieces, from 1862) and piercing, evocative detail is characteristic of the contribution Seshadri has made to the American canon.> This is you at the doorway, unobserved, while your aunts and uncles keen over the body.

Fifa and the IOC have been keen over recent decades to spread the gospel into new territories, largely for commercial reasons.

Shell and BP have been keen over the past couple of years to be seen as progressive on green issues while ExxonMobil has been labelled a fossil fuel dinosaur by environmentalists.

Television news showed female relatives keening over their bodies.

She said neighbors had ripped up her son's photograph because she keened over it incessantly.

The mower begins its cringing whine, a kind of keening over these tough times.

Little did he suspect I'd spend my evenings keening over them, Gollum style.

A revised version of the song "Alfie" (sung by Susanna Hoffs) keens over the end titles.