How to Use fuss over in a Sentence
fuss over
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The great news is that rubber trees don't need a lot of fussing over.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 10 May 2023
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Maybe in the scheme of things, the death toll from driving through New York City isn’t worth fussing over.
—Curbed, 24 Jan. 2023
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All of them fussed over a modest list of clients who regularly didn’t write.
—Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
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That is a lot of fuss over a color often dismissed as merely pretty.
—Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 6 July 2023
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But White, not one to fuss over individual honors or crave the spotlight, tried to brush it off.
—Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
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Why spend another minute fussing over the toaster that only seems to have one setting (burned)?
—Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
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Pontificating about spectrum and glare and sky glow at this late hour might sound like fussing over design details when the house is on fire.
—Suzannah Showler, Harper's Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
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So what’s your take on the fuss over historical accuracy?
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Both are fussed over by family members with a tendency to infantilize them.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
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With his self-deprecating bearing, Brown would have complained about people making a fuss over his death, Caplan said.
—Brian Melley, ajc, 25 May 2023
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United Airlines wants to make sure the days of fussing over overhead bin space (or involuntarily gate-checking bags) are long gone.
—Stella Shon, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2024
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Menswear tends toward the scholarly, with its reverence for the archival and incessant fussing over heritage and tradition.
—Josh Condon, Robb Report, 28 Jan. 2024
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While bubbly Venus in your 11th House of Community fusses over pushy Pluto in your productive 6th house, your mind might be elsewhere during what should be a fun hangout.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
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But until July 22, the man himself can be found inside, fussing over his dentures, his sleep and his coming inauguration.
—Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 June 2023
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As a steady rain fell that night, McHenry kept dry under the hotel’s beige stucco portico, fussing over another resident’s baby before heading back inside to her two cats and her chunky Lab mix, Kirby.
—Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
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She’s introduced as her assorted handlers fuss over and about her, reacting to a public-relations crisis created when a very private photo of her leaks online.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 June 2023
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Unfortunately, our creative instincts may be put on hold when the Moon makes a fuss over critical Saturn, bringing obstacles to peace in our relationships with others and inciting arguments that erupt over harshness or a lack of response.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2023
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While the vulnerable Moon in your partnership sector fusses over anxious Mercury in your nurturing 4th house, perhaps your understandable desires for security and safety are part of your problem somehow.
—Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
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The other storyline, in a classic Monica display of obsessiveness, is Chandler and Monica’s reluctant decision to use their wedding china, which sees Monica fussing over the dinnerware throughout the meal.
—Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2023
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Mahan captains a meticulous army of artisans, lab technicians, engineers, restorers, stone experts, metalworkers, and contractors, who have been fussing over both buildings with tweezers and loupes.
—Curbed, 9 June 2023
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