How to Use put over in a Sentence

put over

verb

• After putting over 30 powders to the test, six rose to the top as clear winners.
  — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
• Rain or shine, the show will go on: A tent has been put over the red carpet to keep event-goers dry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• The 14-year-old was punched, had a hand put over his mouth, and was forced into the back of a car in Bradford, England.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2021
• Our team of intrepid testers put over 200 of these new products through their paces.
  — Garrett Munce, Men's Health, 21 Mar. 2023
• Most hikers opt to carry rain pants to put over their hiking pants if there is a chance of rain.
  — Meg Carney, Field & Stream, 27 Sep. 2023
• The Cleveland fans who in the preseason shop for paper bags to put over their heads, knowing the inevitable.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• Tape will be put over cup holders on seats that are unavailable.
  — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 11 July 2020
• He was yelled at, punched, sodomized, assaulted with pliers and a bag was put over his head.
  — Paloma Chavez, Sacramento Bee, 23 Jan. 2024
• Put a cup of each into a saucepan and put over low heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves (no need to bring to simmer).
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 23 July 2022
• During the colder months of the pandemic, Ms. Brown bought a 4-by-8-foot wood board from Home Depot to put over her apartment floors.
  — New York Times, 26 May 2021
• And PetSmart just put over 2,000 dog products on sale for Presidents Day.
  — Andie Kanaras, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
• However, this was a great way to have Omos put over Rollins while still being protected.
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• Chicken wire with 1-inch openings can also be put over the bulbs underground and then covered with soil.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2021
• Then a lid is put over the top, and all hands gather cover, including cotton stalks, shocks of wheat, and even tumbleweeds, to cover the walls and roof.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 20 Oct. 2020
• Labor unions get a bad rap in this country, and that’s largely a narrative that’s been put over by the captains of industry.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• At one point, the city had a huge tarp put over the statue, creating a ridiculous blob elevated on a pedestal that solved nothing.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
• Together, our crew put over fifty different base layers through the ringer.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• For this year’s hunting category, our team of seven testers put over 80 pieces of hunting gear through their paces.
  — Jenny Nguyen-Wheatley, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2022
• Bags can even be put over flowers to ensure pollen purity, Evans explains.
  — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
• These were bolted into some broad plywood boards that the M.T.A. had put over the subway grates, perhaps in a quixotic effort to keep the tunnels from flooding.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• Stallone provides just the right amount of world-weary gravitas and deadpan humor to put over the hokey material.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2022
• Branco is supported by several PACs that have put over $1.2 million towards the race.
  — Katherine Swartz, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2022
• The quality of the field, which must be repurposed for each soccer game with, for example, the pitching mound removed and sod put over it, has also been criticized.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• Every time a new witness testified, a new cloth covering was put over the microphone by a court assistant and surfaces in front of the witness stand were wiped down.
  — Randy Furst, Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
• And flaws in Qualcomm's ubiquitous Snapdragon chips put over a billion Android devices at risk.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 15 Aug. 2020
• The new information shows increased coastal flooding this century will put over 70 million people around the globe in the path of expanding floodplains.
  — David Schechter, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023
• Not knowing what people might like, Chiang put over 300 items on the menu, including many then-unfamiliar dishes from the Sichuan and Hunan provinces.
  — Paolo Lucchesi, SFChronicle.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• Bp is a prime example but, overall, oil companies have put over US$10 billion into renewable energy projects in each of the last three years.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
• The Vista chief put over $200 million of his own profits into one offshore entity and used another to conceal his ownership and control of the first entity, the government said Thursday.
  — Dave Michaels and Miriam Gottfried, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• There’s no question that Franklin had a more powerful and versatile vocal instrument, and Staples, despite her ability to put over a song with an uncommon depth of feeling, has never pretended otherwise.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024