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o'er

[ UK /ˈɔː/ ]
ADVERB
  1. throughout a period of time
    stay over the weekend

How To Use o'er In A Sentence

  • Far from the bucolic paradise of popular myth, with lowing herds winding slowly o'er the lea, modern farms have as much romance as a widget factory.
  • Thoas rules [8] the land, o'er barbarians, [Thoas,] who guiding his foot swift as the pinion, has arrived at this epithet [of Thoas, i.e. _the swift_] on account of his fleetness of foot. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
  • Sugar sop is na o'er digestible to th 'best o' 'em. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
  • Twa bairnies, twa callans, that skelp o'er the leas, The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
  • Lo, neither do dolphins of the brine fare on land, nor bulls on the deep, but dreadless dost thou rush o'er land and sea alike, thy hooves serving thee for oars. Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose
  • Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow, or shower; The Iliad of Homer (1873)
  • In brighter mazes the relucent ftream Plays o'er the mead. The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical
  • Thou think'st them to o'ertake, Thou thinkest to overtake them, for all thou'rt fettered fast; while thou bearest Thy sins from thy desire Follies, which slay thee whatso do hinder thee, perdie. way thou farest. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • And look o'er the field -- yes! and "hanker" for more. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
  • But they, not sure of the voice they heard, sprang up and peered all round; then once again his bidding came; and when the daughters of Cadmus knew it was the Bacchic god in very truth that called, swift as doves they dirted off in cager haste, his mother Agave and her sisters dear and all the Bacchanals; through torrent glen, o'er boulders huge they bounded on, inspired with madness by the god. The Bacchantes
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