Sentence examples for literal over from inspiring English sources

In her experience, the phrase is quite literal: over the course of her career as a planetary geologist, she's helped develop long-range plans to get humans to Mars.

My reply is: "Coffee, wake up, smell". How can the media hope to comment properly on the imminent battles, economic and literal, over this finite resource, while talking as if there will always be more?

The clothes were light in both construction and spirit, with a disintegrated quality in moth-holed black tweed jacket and skirts (these were a bit too literal) over a cream silk blouse or dress, frayed denim, and a heavenly pink taffeta A-line dress and skirt with slashed holes filled in with black beads and an under-hem of pink feathers.

The idea of a literal do-over, instead of a cinematic one, briefly crossed his mind: "I thought, You know, I've still got a couple of years of eligibility left — I could go back and play!" Tad Friend has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998.

The idea of a literal do-over, instead of a cinematic one, briefly crossed his mind: "I thought, You know, I've still got a couple of years of eligibility left—I could go back and play!" Richard Linklater bid baseball farewell at Sam Houston State.

As electricity slowly returned to the region on Friday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg found himself embroiled in a literal power struggle over whose lights would be turned back on first, New York City's or upstate's, Bloomberg administration and utility officials said yesterday.

The game is a literal virus, taking over the industry at a more rapid pace than anything I've ever seen.

The date change is not motivated by the left's dytopian agenda, but rather that rejoicing over literal stolen land is fast falling out of fashion.

One Wednesday a month for nearly twenty-two years, Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago has presided — in especially literal fashion — over the City Council from an elevated chair that looms over the chamber before him.

By Evan Osnos September 8, 2010 One Wednesday a month for nearly twenty-two years, Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago has presided — in especially literal fashion — over the City Council from an elevated chair that looms over the chamber before him.

Where he proved more determined was in imposing his literal acting over pure dancing that required no emoting.