Sentence examples for over a string from inspiring English sources

That is, the Knight jumps over a string of as many pieces of its own color as it likes, followed by jumping over a string of as many pieces of the other color as it can manage.

Rebel Kurds took over a string of towns in the north-east, while the opposition held much of the territory in the north-west near the border with Turkey.

Afghan security forces, who mostly vanished as violence increased, have returned to take over a string of marine outposts along the 45 miles of river and cotton and poppy fields that make up Garmsir.

He was 13 when his family took over a string of pack stations in the Sierra Nevada near Bishop, Calif., in 1980, and before long he was taking mules into the high country.

Insurgents freely cross the long, unguarded border with Syria and have taken over a string of small villages along the Euphrates River to stage guerrilla attacks in cities to the east like Ramadi, Mosul and Baghdad.

He never quite got over a string of setbacks.

Its outposts have since spread over a string of hills.

But he has presided over a string of public-relations disasters.

An outcry over a string of recent rapes has shattered that silence.

Juliette Hurel, a flutist, flits and glides over a string orchestra in "Galim".

The Commons battle will be fought over a string of amendments.