How to use allover in a sentence
This all-over style makes him the Jackson Pollock of essayists.
Phillip Lopate’s Book Bag: The Essay Tradition | Phillip Lopate | February 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is woven with either the plain weave or a small all-over dobby effect.
Textiles | William H. DooleyGrandmother laughed, too, and then bustled out to the kitchen, put on a great big all-over apron and prepared the supper.
Mary Jane--Her Visit | Clara Ingram JudsonThere was a general, all-over dull ache, punctuated here and there by sharper aches.
But, I Don't Think | Gordon Randall GarrettAlthough apparently he followed every move, the result was never that beautiful all-over tightening at the last pull.
The Rules of the Game | Stewart Edward White
Diaper, a term applied to a small repeating all-over pattern.
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books | Douglas Cockerell
British Dictionary definitions for all-over
covering the entire surface
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with allover
Everywhere. The phrase may be used alone, as in I've looked all over for that book, or The very thought of poison ivy makes me itch all over. In addition it can be used as a preposition, meaning “throughout,” as in The news spread all over town. [Early 1600s] Also see far and wide.
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