o'er
1 Americanpreposition
preposition
Example Sentences
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Now with the warm earth o’er thy breast, O wisest of thy kind and best, Forever mayst thou softly rest, In pace, Peter!
From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023
All we go down to the dust; and, weeping o'er the grave we make our song:
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2022
So we rotated guard duty: All through the night o’er the Ram parts we watched.
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022
“Together they sleep on the sloping green Where the flowers bloom ‘neath the sunlight beam And the soft breezes sigh through the willow tree That nods o’er the grave in the sunny Shawnee.”
From Washington Times • Feb. 17, 2019
I looked o’er my shoulder to see what had scairt Ma so bad.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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