How to Use walkover in a Sentence

walkover

noun

• So this week’s trip to face the Buckeyes should be a walkover, right?
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2021
• Then all of a sudden—Jo takes the floor herself to do a back walkover.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 8 Mar. 2019
• No high-fives from fans during the walkover from the backside to the paddock.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 22 Aug. 2020
• People should never think that this is an easy walkover.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 5 July 2023
• There, Cozens claimed the third-place finish with a walkover finish.
  — Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 26 May 2023
• Boston College received a walkover when the Irish dropped out.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• Even a second-round game Sunday against Missouri wouldn’t be a walkover.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Kong was awarded a walkover win when Del Norte’s Ayanna Shah pulled out with an injured neck.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2022
• But many players did not make it at all, which resulted in 30 walkovers in the first round of the men’s tournament and four more in the second round.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2018
• Jack Sock, who won in a walkover when Raonic pulled out with a hamstring tear, will defend his title.
  — Craig Davis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• The Bills travel to Miami this week, and all of a sudden the Dolphins aren’t a walkover opponent.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• Jansen took a walkover against Devidze to get her first singles medal since July.
  — Todd Boss, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• After that, a team that withdraws will simply go home, and its opponent will get a walkover into the next round.
  — Eddie Pells, Star Tribune, 15 Mar. 2021
• Granada will be no walkover for the spurting champions.
  — SI.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• Even with that walkover, McIlroy still needed Kjeldsen to lose his second match to have any chance of advancing out of the round-robin group stage.
  — The Associated Press, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2017
• This was not the walkover most were expecting against the unheralded Australians, though.
  — Steve Douglas, ajc, 3 Dec. 2022
• He's been in power for half of his 66 years and extended his rule last month after his party's walkover election win.
  — Matthew Pennington, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2018
• Andy Murray, but advanced in a walkover because Murray dealt with a bout of food poisoning.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• The Canadian had withdrawn from five events this year, and conceded walkovers at two others.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2017
• Men’s sixth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas got a walkover in the second round when Philipp Kohlschreiber withdrew because of a muscle strain.
  — Howard Fendrich, SFChronicle.com, 21 Jan. 2020
• Pinellas County closed off 14 of 28 beach access walkovers in Indian Rocks Beach alone.
  — Rebecca Blackwell and Laura Bargfeld, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Sep. 2023
• Barty and Australian partner John Peers, who are good family friends, took the bronze medal courtesy of a walkover because of Djokovic's injury.
  — Andrew Dampf, Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
• Kyrgios got a walkover to the final after Rafael Nadal withdrew due to a torn abdominal muscle.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 9 July 2022
• Even in a walkover like this, a stat-padding party if ever there was one, there could be no letdown in focus and intensity.
  — Mike Berardino, Indianapolis Star, 14 Sep. 2019
• Osaka advanced to the third round via walkover Wednesday, while Barty will play her second-round match Thursday.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
• John Isner, meanwhile, withdrew because of a wrist injury, sending No. 28 seed Holger Rune into the third round with a walkover.
  — Brian Mahoney, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• Djokovic received a walkover in the second round because his opponent, Jiri Vesely, had a forearm injury.
  — Naila-Jean Meyers, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2016
• Although the Hornets got some reinforcement and suited up 11 players, Friday had the makings of a walkover for Dallas.
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
• None of the above would be a walkover, especially considering England have won just two World Cup knockout fixtures since 1990.
  — SI.com, 5 June 2018
• Tammy Marris said he's been told to stay off the beach and walkovers for six months for violating an ordinance that prohibits soliciting on the beach.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024