Sentence examples for sliver over from inspiring English sources

By the time it limped away from its theatrical run and into Blockbuster, it had made a sliver over $500,000: 10% of its production costs.

Al twisted a lemon sliver over his espresso and repeated the classic "Godfather" line that his father's murder was "business, not personal".

Only a sliver over a half of the Germans, whose leaders have been the prime motor of integration, told pollsters last year that they were in favour of joining the single currency.

But she read in a local newspaper that Mr. Romney, who won the Ohio primary by a sliver over Mr. Santorum, was in town, so she went online and registered to attend his speech.

About a thousand yards into the Bay, toward the city, a sudden plume of steam, coming from a shiny grey-black sliver rounded over the water's surface.

Her sleepless nights there were haunted by the collective grumble of her sheltermates — restless and downtrodden, so many women and families — who took over slivers of the shelter's vast open space as their own.

On a quiet Harlem backstreet at the end of a row of stately brownstones is a grassed-over sliver of land, home to a handful of plane trees, a couple of flowertubs and a garden bench or two.

Sprinkle slivered almonds over the top for a little something extra.

On the day the N.F.L. lockout entered its third month, while players and owners argued in a Minneapolis court over billions of dollars in television revenue, Dan DePalma was exerting his sliver of control over football on a high school field in Hoboken, N.J., last week.

"Sure, I have a sliver of doubt over whether she can duplicate a year that I'm not sure any other horse has ever had," her trainer, Steve Asmussen, said.

Line it up so that it is perfectly centered, the edges are in line with the rails on the mouthpiece, and you can just barely see a tiny sliver of mouthpiece over the tip of the reed.