How to Use fuss over in a Sentence

fuss over

verb
  • Why the fuss over a small project?
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
  • No need to fuss over a pastry or cookie crust.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Why so much fuss over such a small and unassuming fish?
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2026
  • There’s lots to fuss over during the holidays.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2025
  • In reality, there wasn't much for Lexi to fuss over at all.
    — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Walker should be used to some of the fuss over him considering the last month wasn’t a sudden star turn.
    — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Feb. 2026
  • The Moon, while still in your sign, fusses over quirky Uranus in the home and family sphere.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The batter comes together fast, and there’s no icing or glaze to fuss over—just a quick sift of powdered sugar.
    — Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 17 May 2026
  • Avoid extremes like daily fussing over your orchid and total neglect of your orchid.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 June 2026
  • People will no longer fuss over confusing hirings and firings or head-scratching trades and free-agent signings of the past.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But the fuss over its form overlooked the experience of residing within.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Both the toe and ankle straps can be easily adjusted to create a secure fit, so there’s no need to fuss over buckles or laces.
    — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
  • The house dated to the 1870s and had been broken into apartments, but the family didn’t fuss over it much.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 20 Mar. 2026
  • With just a few ingredients and even fewer steps, this will make entertaining easy without the hassle of fussing over the oven all day and night.
    — Brennan Long, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
  • Americans perhaps make a bit of a fuss over how good the food is in Paris, but Full Phil takes this notion to ridiculous extremes.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
  • The soft and stretchy straps are easy to slip your feet into without fussing over buckles or adjustments, and the ankle strap provides an extra layer of support for long days on your feet.
    — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 23 June 2026
  • Scott Rudin, David Mamet, Chris Rock, and various directors had fussed over a remake.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
  • This quick and easy appetizer, with just a few ingredients and even fewer steps, will make entertaining easy without the hassle of fussing over the oven all day and night.
    — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 1 May 2026
  • This quick and easy appetizer, with just a few ingredients and even fewer steps, will make entertaining easy without the hassle of fussing over the oven all day and night.
    — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
  • At heart and when feet hit the ground, this is a show about singing first, and dancing second; non-choreographic visual matters have obviously been fussed over but still land somewhere in a distant third.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 June 2026
  • The Moon in your 5th House of Invention is fussing over volatile Uranus in your 11th House of Networks.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Angela can't stop fussing over the kitchen tidiness, while Joe struggles to relax, clumsily attempting to dance seductively for Piña.
    — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Your 9th House of Mental Growth takes the spotlight as the empathetic Moon fusses over combative Mars.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Yesterday, while driving my nine-year-old daughter to soccer practice, we once again got caught in one of these celebratory migrations, which prompted her to ask why there was always so much fuss over what amounted to the end of the school year.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • The bad news is that there are already murmurs in Brussels about piecemeal, incremental measures – harmonizing certain national laws, creating yet another framework for EU member states to fuss over and interpret.
    — Jan Hammer, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the regional-rap enthusiasts initially dazzled by early gems like 2014’s Rich Gang project Tha Tour Part 1 and 2015’s Barter 6 eventually fussed over the quality of his work.
    — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025

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