How to Use give over in a Sentence

give over

verb

• The child who had been with the driver was given over to a friend.
  — Joseph Clark, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2020
• The man gave over his items, and the robbers got back into the sedan and fled north.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
• The rest of the warehouse is given over to rigs where the bikes are tested.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• The liner was retired in 1967 and given over to the City of Long Beach.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
• And most of the practice running would be given over to the AI.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2018
• First, the entire body of the bike can be given over to a battery pack.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• But why give over so much of the film to scenes of the three leads just touring through Europe in the lead-up to the attack?
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• Vast swaths of Indonesia and Malaysia are given over to the crop.
  — Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Science | AAAS, 11 July 2019
• In a year a plasma donor could give over 80 litres of the stuff, compared with just 1.6 litres from a whole-blood donor.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• The acreage is largely given over to fir trees and poison oak.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2018
• An entire section of the cemetery is given over to Ulan-Ude’s dead in the war.
  — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Each full moon also has a name that they’ve been given over time.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
• So to shore up their base, Bush and the GOP mandarins gave over large swaths of the party platform to the hard-liners.
  — David Friend, Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2017
• But covering a few months of a subscription is the gift that gives over and over again.
  — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
• But Riseman wrote a new order — for it to be given over eight hours.
  — John Fauber, jsonline.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Now parts of these roads will be given over to those walking and biking, and to trees and benches.
  — Sam Rigby, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2019
• She is seen from above, and the top half of the image is given over to dense foliage that mimics the dark fields of ink in the woodcuts.
  — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2019
• Evenings were given over to fresh fish and pasta and copious amounts of wine and beer.
  — Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
• The 12th floor of the new addition has been given over in its entirety to the use of the employees.
  — Ralph Blumenthal and Sandra Roff, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• But Facebook still doesn't know what files were given over to Collins and his colleagues.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2018
• Roughly two of those seconds are given over to clicks; the rest is silence.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The stiff body structure and track tuning yields a car with no body lean in corners and little give over bumps.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2020
• The decathlon will conclude, but the rest of the competition is given over to the women.
  — OregonLive.com, 7 June 2018
• His parents were not at home Wednesday night when the first broadcast of the recording was given over the networks.
  — Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2019
• The tragedy muse, Melpomene, doesn’t have as much to do in the summertime, which is largely given over to musicals.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 24 June 2019
• Why not go all the way and give over your country to external management?
  — Quinn Slobodian, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• However, as soon as the sun sets and the fast is broken, the night is given over to feasting with family and friends.
  — Anissa Helou, Bon Appetit, 15 May 2018
• But who wants to live in a world where creativity is given over to machines?
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
• The rest of the episode is given over to discussing such matters, and others related to dry cleaning.
  — Dan Duray, Town & Country, 20 May 2019
• Those 300 items where given over to Lee and her team, who then selected their favorites and added a little Madewell spin.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024