How to Use work over in a Sentence

work over

verb
  • How’s that worked over the last decade?
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
  • And their hard work over the years has shown, man, it’s shown.
    — David Delgado, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Had a lot of trouble with my work over the years.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Dozens of artists have covered or sampled your work over the years.
    — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 29 Jan. 2025
  • That’s the way these things work over a nine-year period of time.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In very rare, special instances, a show can make this work over the long haul.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2024
  • Magritte was known to paint new works over older ones on occasion.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Most of Gay’s work over the years happened behind closed doors.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Minors cannot work over 40 hours a week due to child labor laws.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • But Vaghy has put in plenty of work over the years to fine-tune her craft as well.
    — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Nee confirmed that success has come because of hard work over the years.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Bradley worked over a pair of walks in the first inning, getting out unscathed.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Bryant said he was punched in the face, then taken to an isolated area and worked over some more.
    — Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • But the biggest winner could be theatrical if the two movies work over the long run.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 June 2023
  • But flood mitigation work over the years has made a huge impact.
    — Kenny Choi, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
  • The narration talked about Fox in the past tense and looked back on his life and work over the years.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • White worked over the paragraph a third time, and telegraphed it to the magazine.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Plant life, shea butter, black soap and recurring imagery thread his work over the decades.
    — Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2025
  • Some work over eons — building the bedrock, for example — and some change daily.
    — Michelle Williams, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • In the library, the musical’s makers worked over their ideas.
    — Melena Ryzik Adali Schell, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • What’s crept into DiCaprio’s work over the past decade-plus is a healthy sense of irony.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Roxanne worked over Iyo’s left leg as Sky fought from underneath.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
  • It has been thwarted too much by the way our bureaucracy has worked over the past 15 years.
    — ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The 22-year-old Venezuelan worked over the winter to improve his throws.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Eichenberg’s work over the past eight months instilled that confidence in Knowles, as well.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Perez worked over Ripley’s leg, and was able to chop down the big tree despite giving away a lot of size in the match.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • In that context, Willard’s work over the past 12 months has deeply impressed Williams.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • And really the most interesting part is to see all this work over 50 years.
    — Ramsen Shamon, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025

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