Sentence examples for over a coin from inspiring English sources

"Of course," he said hesitantly, as if he were slowly turning over a coin to study the side that seemed to be shinier, "you can't always be a failure.

And they went into this fixture a bit over a coin toss odds.

Hightower said that if the decision was left entirely to Felix and Tarmoh, they would probably choose a runoff over a coin toss or having one of them drop out.

After presiding over a coin toss at a cricket match between journalists and politicians on Sunday, Turnbull continued to argue Labor's policy on negative gearing would create a shock in the property market.

By Albert Maltz The New Yorker, January 11 , 1941P. 17 A boy and a man fighting over a coin which had dropped to the pit of a subway grating.

The children trek along muddy paths up to four-hours a day to the valley where buyers await to hand over a few coins for their endeavours.

A rectangle of oxtail terrine sprinkled with salt loomed over a coin-size sliver of aspic.

Behind her, a throng of men huddled over a coin-tossing game, betting stacks of cash.

In contrast to the rest of the results represented in Figure 1, the pattern of choices made by participants in Experiment 5A was surprisingly consistent with the predictions of the noisy-OR rule: They preferred to toss a single coin with an 80% chance of winning over twice tossing a coin with a 40% chance of winning.

Try this simple test: flip a coin, over and over again, calling out "Heads!" or "Tails!" after each flip.

But what about Frank Sinatra, Jr.? When lunch was over, I mentally flipped a coin and said, "Bye, Mr. Sinatra, it was nice to meet you".