How to Use give over in a Sentence

give over

verb
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  • 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
  • The treatment involves a course of pills given over 12 weeks.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • The war that was private to the two of them has been given over to sons and councils and dragons, and there’s no going back now.
    — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 14 July 2024
  • 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
  • The play is almost entirely pieced together from tapes of talks Frosts gave over the years.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2024
  • 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
  • The neighborhood of Jew Town remains — its label is not derogatory, but a designation given over time as more Jewish people arrived in the area.
    — Abraham Verghese, Travel + Leisure, 24 July 2024
  • Once diagnosed, doctors treat the disease with a combination of two antimicrobial agents given over seven to 10 days.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 18 Oct. 2024

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