Sentence examples for over a thing from inspiring English sources

"For many of our families," said Ms. Bedore, "the 40-hour workweek is over, a thing of the past.

The back and forth over the administration's obligation to pursue this appeal has often proceeded on the implicit assumption that, if the government did not appeal, then DADT would be permanently over, a thing of the past.

It's that everybody who competes in them has spent their entire lives trying their very best to do something better than anybody else so that once every four years they can say "I was the best human at throwing a big heavy thing or jumping over a thing or rowing a boat".

You don't get over a thing like that.

"It is not possible to cover over a thing like this," said President Abdullah Gul of Turkey, according to the Anatolia news agency.

Full ownership is simply a logically strongest set of ownership rights over a thing.

And over there, a thing that looks like art but probably isn't.

Why lose your position, your fortune and your life over such a thing?

There is also such a thing as over-saturation.

There IS such a thing as over-conditioning.

There's such a thing as over-reacting when it comes to break-ups.