How to Use over and above in a Sentence

over and above

preposition
  • Those gifts were over and above the trust’s target percentages.
    — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • There’s all sorts of subtle things — key things — happening over and above the beat in rap songs.
    — Katie Simons, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • There’s something sacred about the archive, over and above the fact of its survival.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2022
  • And there are benefits over and above helping poor people keep more of their earnings.
    — Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Profits and dividends have both grown over and above the rate of inflation for decades.
    — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Give a little extra, network, use your charm and be willing to go over and above the call of duty.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The list of data-sharing examples (over and above these two very random ones) goes on and on.
    — Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The lawyer described that amount as what the new buyer agreed to pay over and above the Rickmans’ purchase price.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 17 Nov. 2021
  • That's over and above all the other neat features this brand offers with its modular guitars.
    — New Atlas, 18 May 2026
  • That’s not the pitch, because there aren’t enough hospitals that want to spend an extra half-million dollars a year over and above their payroll.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • To be clear, this is state and federal taxpayers’ money, collected and disbursed over and above the budget needs of the state.
    — Daniel J. Pilla, National Review, 28 July 2022
  • Storm surge is an abnormal rise of water generated by a hurricane or large storm, over and above predicted high or low tides.
    — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Our values shape much of our marital stability over and above the surface issues of everyday crises.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Alito argues that the Second Amendment can be enforced, over and above state law, because of the due-process clause.
    — Corey Robin, The New Yorker, 9 July 2022
  • The Business Improvement District tax is over and above normal sales taxes.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • There is a large collection of bright stars that appears in a cloud-like distribution, over and above the background brightness of other galaxies.
    — Big Think, 4 Nov. 2025
  • That’s not to say all athletic competitions necessarily need to have a point over and above athletics.
    — Time, 29 July 2021
  • So this rests on the idea of universality, that there is common behavior over and above the microscopic details of the system.
    — Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
  • With this credit card, Samsung consumers will get 10% in cashback over and above all existing offers and services around the year.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 27 Sep. 2022
  • For example, a mother has a commitment to ensuring her kid’s well-being, over and above her general wish for all kids everywhere to be well.
    — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The country’s homebuilders constructed about two million single family houses over and above the pre-pandemic trend.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The money the district places in the HRAs is over and above what the district pays toward employee premiums.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Epigenetics refers to the information in the genome over and above that contained in the DNA sequence.
    — Paul Haggarty, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2015
  • What’s punishing is a wide premium over and above the CPI that investors can get from purchasing bonds instead of stocks.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • When an element within the nation seeks its own power and its own way over and above any other factor, that element must be confronted, or else everything might be lost.
    — Jon Meacham, Time, 12 Oct. 2022
  • But over and above Li’s disappearance, retailers will worry much more about China’s weak consumption trends.
    — Jane Li, Quartz, 22 June 2022
  • This motionless, radiant intimacy between women presents a way of coming to know one another over and above language.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Samsung has always added its own advances to securing and safeguarding Galaxy phones, over and above stock Android software.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • And while some shower head filters may claim to remove other contaminants over and above chlorine and/or soften hard water, just note that a whole-house water softener works best for that.
    — Good Housekeeping, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Tesla cleared a lot of its year-end inventory with heavy discounting over and above the $7,500 federal tax incentive.
    — Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025

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