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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"Walk over and visit the people," Walker repeated.
From Salon • Oct. 20, 2022
Walk over to the Wallis Annenberg Center, where the New Establishment Summit is underway.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2018
Walk over the hills from a village pub to a B&B and you would likely think there are few problems here.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2015
Walk over to the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, and you can see a reprise of St. Florian's stars and flat-surface columns.
From Time Magazine Archive
Walk over it, and you seem to have blasted the earth with a fiery tread, leaving desolation behind.
From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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