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row over

/ rəʊ /

verb

  1. to win a rowing race unopposed, by rowing the course
“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


noun

  1. the act of doing this
“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
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Example Sentences

That was six years before the so-called biography law, but the row over Garrincha set the tone for the battles that would ensue.

There was that combustive row over guns, in which two (and maybe three, pending results) anti-gun legislators were recalled.

There can never be a Nobel-style row over whether an American wins the Man Booker Prize.

At length he determined to row over to the giant's place and see if fortune would favour him.

There will be a row over this, but—well, it is too much to expect men to submit to such unnecessary discomfort.

Suppose we row over while Edith goes on her wheel to Mrs. Hansens and telephones to Boonton.

Byron stayed at Sécheron, but used often to row over to visit them.

What if it should come calm and you ain't got him talked over and they should take the boat and row over to the mainland?

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