Sentence examples for put something over from inspiring English sources

This is because Americans view the French as shifty and pretentious, and honestly think that when someone sings all or part of a song in French, they are trying to put something over on us.

The police came and put something over her".

"I think they're trying to put something over on people," Mr. deFur said.

OPERATOR: O.K., just put, put something over top it -- can you put something on it?

Papp was probably as great a showman as the theater has seen, but he wasn't trying to put something over on people.

Mr. Zimmer has amended the measure to make it more difficult for one region of the state to put something over on another, but still many Republican lawmakers are lukewarm, at best.

He says, "I really think the art of painting is the art of putting something over something else".

Do You Really Need to Cover Your Computer Webcam? "Just beware that putting something over your camera lens isn't a complete solution, according to Marshall Erwin, head of trust and privacy at Mozilla, which makes the Firefox browser.

He is putting something over on the world, a powerball pitcher who suddenly discovers it is just as cool to see hitters splat one into the ground as it is to see them strike out lustily.

So up he goes for another forty days and forty nights, and this time when he comes back down with the tablets, everyone knows it's for real because the "skin of his face" is blindingly shiny, and no one can look at him unless he puts something over his head.

I've always loved weekday baseball for this reason, for the camaraderie it evokes among the faithful, the sense that, for the moment, at least, we're putting something over on the world.