Sentence examples for over a phrase from inspiring English sources

Anna, we learn, wears the boots of her older brother who has "gone over," a phrase that Lib at first takes to mean emigration to the United States but which the reader will suspect indicates a more final destination.

Henley had famously said the Eagles would reunite "when hell freezes over," a phrase the band good-naturedly adopted when it did indeed get back together in 1992 for a new round of recordings and regular tours that continued into 2015.

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In the "Confessions," Augustine puzzles over a phrase from the first chapter of Genesis: "Be fruitful and multiply".

Most of my stuff is reverse-engineered from tripping over a phrase or an idea and working out what the most unlikely misinterpretation might be.

There is something in their eyes... and they use the same slight hesitations over a phrase, as if they might change their minds at any point.

And over and over again a phrase rose unbidden to my mind; there but for the Grace of God go I. Suddenly, fighting to get Jack to pet a puppy or eat a piece of squash feels ridiculous compared to this family's fight to save their son's life.

But I will say, when I was in Wales -- whose language I am convinced is difficult on purpose -- I spent a little time in the back of my guidebook going over a few phrases.

When I am running, I say a phrase over and over in my head.

If politics was a respectful process in which voters allowed a government the luxury of honing its positions on big issues over time, a phrase like this might not matter too much.

This agreement would take the form of a memorandum of understanding, and would be accompanied by arms sales and support that would give forces in the Gulf a "qualitative advantage" over Iran, a phrase echoing the guiding philosophy underpinning US military support for Israel.