How to Use give over in a Sentence

give over

verb

• The child who had been with the driver was given over to a friend.
  — Joseph Clark, cleveland, 9 Jan. 2020
• The man gave over his items, and the robbers got back into the sedan and fled north.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023
• The rest of the warehouse is given over to rigs where the bikes are tested.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• The liner was retired in 1967 and given over to the City of Long Beach.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2023
• And most of the practice running would be given over to the AI.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2018
• First, the entire body of the bike can be given over to a battery pack.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• But why give over so much of the film to scenes of the three leads just touring through Europe in the lead-up to the attack?
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
• Vast swaths of Indonesia and Malaysia are given over to the crop.
  — Dyna Rochmyaningsih, Science | AAAS, 11 July 2019
• In a year a plasma donor could give over 80 litres of the stuff, compared with just 1.6 litres from a whole-blood donor.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• The acreage is largely given over to fir trees and poison oak.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Jan. 2018
• An entire section of the cemetery is given over to Ulan-Ude’s dead in the war.
  — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Each full moon also has a name that they’ve been given over time.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
• The treatment involves a course of pills given over 12 weeks.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024
• So to shore up their base, Bush and the GOP mandarins gave over large swaths of the party platform to the hard-liners.
  — David Friend, Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2017
• But covering a few months of a subscription is the gift that gives over and over again.
  — Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2023
• But Riseman wrote a new order — for it to be given over eight hours.
  — John Fauber, jsonline.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Now parts of these roads will be given over to those walking and biking, and to trees and benches.
  — Sam Rigby, Quartz, 2 Nov. 2019
• She is seen from above, and the top half of the image is given over to dense foliage that mimics the dark fields of ink in the woodcuts.
  — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2019
• Evenings were given over to fresh fish and pasta and copious amounts of wine and beer.
  — Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
• The 12th floor of the new addition has been given over in its entirety to the use of the employees.
  — Ralph Blumenthal and Sandra Roff, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• But Facebook still doesn't know what files were given over to Collins and his colleagues.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2018
• The war that was private to the two of them has been given over to sons and councils and dragons, and there’s no going back now.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 14 July 2024
• Roughly two of those seconds are given over to clicks; the rest is silence.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• The stiff body structure and track tuning yields a car with no body lean in corners and little give over bumps.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Apr. 2020
• Everyone just gave over their email and password and stuff.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2024
• The decathlon will conclude, but the rest of the competition is given over to the women.
  — OregonLive.com, 7 June 2018
• There is so much of the city that has given over to the wicked history of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692.
  — Shannon Carlin, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
• The play is almost entirely pieced together from tapes of talks Frosts gave over the years.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2024
• From the bottom of Central Park down to 42nd Street, five lanes will become three, one of them given over to buses.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2024
• His parents were not at home Wednesday night when the first broadcast of the recording was given over the networks.
  — Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2019

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024