How to Use work over in a Sentence

work over

verb
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  • 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
  • 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 duo said their work over the past 13 years is a credit to the strength of what originally brought them together: Their friendship.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 May 2022
  • But work over decades has shown that some infections do occur in summer months.
    — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022

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