Sentence examples for was over without from inspiring English sources

Tells how the battle of Mt. Cammarata was over without a shell having been fired.

But once the Cowboys scored, the game was over, without the Giants having a chance to respond.

For them, abandoned by Afghans they had gone to help, the jihad was over without a shot fired, their pitiful old rifles, muskets and pistols seized by alliance soldiers, their wallets and even their sweaters and shoes stolen.

Only Mr. Cameron – with his wife Samantha, and his closest aides – will know whether he met the end of his testimony with relief that it was over without any politically fatal blow struck, or a feeling that he had been publicly embarrassed by some of the questioning, particularly by the "Yes He Cam" text message from Ms. Brooks – or, most likely, with a mixture of the two.

We'd all like the crisis to be over without a mess.

We assumed that the war in Afghanistan was going so well that it would be over without more American troops.

That wasn't just a dismissal, it's a gambit to signify that the issue is over without any significant change.

3.36pm GMT UK: summit has ended in deadlock The UK government is briefing that the summit is over, without a deal.

Lee played in 81 games each of the last three seasons, but his Knicks career may be over without a meeting.

This asymmetry "completely stacks the deck against existence," he continued, because it suggests that "all the unpleasantness and all the misery and all the suffering could be over, without any real cost".

The arrangement also manages a sly wink to the main hook from Lenny Kravitz's "It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over" without sampling it.