How to Use work over in a Sentence

work over

verb

• The Schlage works over Thread, while the Level works over Bluetooth.
  — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
• Most of Gay’s work over the years happened behind closed doors.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
• In very rare, special instances, a show can make this work over the long haul.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
• The 22-year-old Venezuelan worked over the winter to improve his throws.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2024
• Minors cannot work over 40 hours a week due to child labor laws.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
• But the biggest winner could be theatrical if the two movies work over the long run.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2023
• Meanwhile, Beasley will keep his head down and work over the next 15 games before the NBA trade deadline hits.
  — Kyle Fredrickson, The Denver Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• That’s a lot of work over 1.5 seasons, but the Yankees were looking to add strikeout stuff to their bullpen.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024
• In the library, the musical’s makers worked over their ideas.
  — Melena Ryzik Adali Schell, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• It has been thwarted too much by the way our bureaucracy has worked over the past 15 years.
  — ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024
• Her career took off from there, and she's steadily worked over the past three-and-a-half decades in hits like Boogie Nights and The Hangover.
  — Gillian Telling, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• Commuters to Huntsville may want to factor in a few more minutes on their drive into work over the next few years.
  — Scott Turner | , al, 31 May 2023
• Polk is big and tough enough with strong hands to work over the middle, but features great body control and enough speed to win deep as well.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
• But even if there isn’t another, the body of work over the last six months is as impressive as any other in the East.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2021
• While much of Suri’s life growing up has been kept private, she’s been included in a lot of Katie’s work over the years.
  — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 24 June 2024
• Magritte was known to paint new works over older ones on occasion.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
• The Menendez case is a prime illustration of what Fuller finds so admirable about Burgess and her work over the decades.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 16 July 2024
• Some work over eons — building the bedrock, for example — and some change daily.
  — Michelle Williams, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Target is once again paying front-line employees a $200 bonus to thank them for their work over the past few months.
  — Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune, 29 July 2021
• The extent to which people have changed their minds about work over the last 18 months is significant.
  — Aman Kidwai, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2021
• Eichenberg’s work over the past eight months instilled that confidence in Knowles, as well.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2022
• Production is still not back to full strength, and many below-the-line crew members have struggled to find work over the last year.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 3 Mar. 2024
• Yet the 49ers have worked over Seattle both with and without McCaffrey.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
• One of those trials tested safety over a year, while the other two studied how well the drug worked over 12 weeks.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 17 May 2023
• The parties worked over the weekend to hammer out such provisions.
  — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
• Walters still hasn’t surrendered a hit in 7 2/3 innings of work over eight games.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• Her work over the years serves as something of a steady, stealthy prompt for increasing our own capacity to do the same.
  — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
• Callahan’s work over five seasons with the Bengals speaks for itself.
  — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 24 Jan. 2024
• This allowed the writer to transfer their work over to the thinner carbon paper.
  — USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
• The documentary alleged that workers were working over the maximum 60 hours weekly, and were forced to take a three-hour bus commute to the desert site and back on top of their shift, leaving them with around four hours to sleep.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024