walk over
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See walk all over .
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Defeat easily, as in We walked over them in that practice game but don't know how we'll do in the real thing . [Second half of 1900s]
Example Sentences
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“If you got hungry, you had to walk over to Dan Tana’s. Tana’s was delicious and evil — all that garlic,” Babitz once wrote in her semi-autobiographical novel, “L.A. Woman.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
An interactive map and film take visitors through the battle, telling us that it was an “important loss” for the Americans, proving that the British couldn’t just walk over us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Back when Masum Momaya was a curator at the Smithsonian, she would occasionally leave her office and take the short walk over to the National Museum of Asian Art for a quick break.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2025
When they walk over the threshold of county halls and mayors' offices for the first time, they cross the threshold from being a party of protest to a party with responsibility.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
I’m not sure why they give him this task when we could just walk over and retrieve it ourselves.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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