How to Use give over in a Sentence

give over

verb
  • The child who had been with the driver was given over to a friend.
    — Joseph Clark, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Each full moon also has a name that they’ve been given over time.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The sandy beach stretches on for miles, much of which is given over to beach clubs.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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 acreage is largely given over to fir trees and poison oak.
    — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The rest of the warehouse is given over to rigs where the bikes are tested.
    — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • First, the entire body of the bike can be given over to a battery pack.
    — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • But Riseman wrote a new order — for it to be given over eight hours.
    — John Fauber, jsonline.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Roughly two of those seconds are given over to clicks; the rest is silence.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But covering a few months of a subscription is the gift that gives over and over again.
    — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
  • But covering a few months of a subscription is the gift that gives over and over again.
    — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Evenings were given over to fresh fish and pasta and copious amounts of wine and beer.
    — Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The treatment involves a course of pills given over 12 weeks.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • But who wants to live in a world where creativity is given over to machines?
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
  • And most of the practice running would be given over to the AI.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2018
  • Why not go all the way and give over your country to external management?
    — Quinn Slobodian, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Vast swaths of Indonesia and Malaysia are given over to the crop.
    — Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Science | AAAS, 11 July 2019
  • But Facebook still doesn't know what files were given over to Collins and his colleagues.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2018
  • The stadium cannot only be given over to those who can afford to pay the most, there must be a balance.
    — Andy Mitten, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The play is almost entirely pieced together from tapes of talks Frosts gave over the years.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The decathlon will conclude, but the rest of the competition is given over to the women.
    — OregonLive.com, 7 June 2018
  • The rest of the episode is given over to discussing such matters, and others related to dry cleaning.
    — Dan Duray, Town & Country, 20 May 2019
  • However, as soon as the sun sets and the fast is broken, the night is given over to feasting with family and friends.
    — Anissa Helou, Bon Appetit, 15 May 2018

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