Sentence examples for over the affection from inspiring English sources

Mencken; over the affection and loyalty of their son; even over who would be first at the door when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt came to visit the Knopf office.

A twinge of jealousy over the affection your child shows for a teacher is a good sign that it's a good fit.

It's one of the things I love about Steve, the over-the-top affection he bestows on animals.

In a time of constant darkness, it's nice to embrace a little over-the-top affection and mysterious bodice-ripping.

Then at age 23, he died after fighting with a younger goat over the affections of a nanny.

At the same time, The Two Noble Kinsmen, with its tale of two cousins fighting to the death over the affections of the same woman, has parallels with the plots of many Bollywood films.

The tower figured in a clash between two prominent Jews over the affections of a woman, allowing one of them to spy on the other in the narrow lane of the quarter until a king intervened.

Chief Allee said the relationship among the two women who were arrested and the victim remained unclear, though they thought Ms. Santiago and the victim might have fought over the affections of a man who apparently lived with the victim.

The DUP had lost a tug of war with the TUV and UUP over the affections of the Grand Orange Lodge.

In the summer of 1694 he fought a duel over the affections of a young lady and killed the man.

The film, a romantic melodrama set in Kentucky, is about a widower (Bernhard Goetzke) who jealously competes with his crippled son (John F. Hamilton) and a man he loathes (Malcolm Keen) over the affections of a schoolteacher (Nita Naldi).