How to Use over the way in a Sentence

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  • The man sued the mayor and the chief over the way his reinstatement was handled.
    Tony Holt, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The two lead actors pop without winning you over the way Kid ‘n Play did.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
  • But some unions in the broader labor movement are smarting over the way the deal went down.
    Lauren Kaori Gurley and Toluse Olorunnipa, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Dec. 2022
  • There’s also tension over the way the UC has handled public funds.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • In some ways, the race exemplified the growing divide over the way to move forward.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • This time, tensions have reached a boiling point over the way streaming has steamrolled the industry.
    Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Although some agreed that Shekira's answer didn't make sense, most were laughing over the way Steve couldn't control himself on the air.
    Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Employees at both Twitter and Facebook very publicly fretted over the way their tools might have played a role in the 2016 election.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Brady sounded bitter over the way he has been treated by management.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2021
  • Family members of the teens expressed outrage over the way police handled the arrests.
    Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2021
  • After the twisted contest has concluded, the camera pans to her dresser, where her phone displays a text from a friend who’s apoplectic over the way her boyfriend just spoke to her.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2022
  • More cases are headed to the court over the way mail-in ballots are distributed, delivered and counted in an election that Trump claims, without proof, has been rigged against him.
    Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2020
  • There has been controversy for decades over the way menthols have been marketed to African Americans.
    Fortune, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Nearly forty years ago, pilots and flight attendants walked off their jobs in frustration over the way their employers were treating them.
    Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Cummings is the second key adviser to Johnson to go in the space of a day, after tensions blew up over the way the prime minister’s inner circle operates.
    Alex Morales, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2020
  • That was partly an attempt to move on from the departures of Cummings and Cain, which came after tensions blew up over the way the prime minister’s inner circle operates.
    Sebastian Tong, Bloomberg.com, 15 Nov. 2020
  • That outcome is widely seen as opening the door to other legal challenges over the way gun manufacturers market their weapons.
    Nick Penzenstadler, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The push to remove books from classrooms in Southlake comes more than a year into a heated fight over the way the Carroll school district handles issues of race, identity and student discipline.
    Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The people familiar with the matter said four prosecutors left the team investigating Trump over the way Pomerantz was running it.
    Tom Winter, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • France’s delicate stance toward Haiti reflects a lingering uncertainty, at times a malaise, over the way to address the country’s colonial and slave-owning past.
    New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • The people in that suite with Johnston — nearly all women — were the ex-cheerleaders and staffers who testified and spoke up over the way former Commanders owner Daniel Snyder did business.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Multiple comments on the GoFundMe page expressed outrage and frustration over the way Haight was being remembered.
    Brooke Baitinger The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 17 Jan. 2023
  • And that’s not to mention criticism over the way the company handled safety protocols for workers and drivers during the pandemic.
    Sarah Hansen, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Advertisers weren’t alone in fleeing Twitter post–Musk’s acquisition, with users of the social network leaving the platform in droves in protest over the way the site was changing, and new competitors scooping them up.
    Bychloe Taylor, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • Advertisers weren’t alone in fleeing Twitter post–Musk’s acquisition, with users of the social network leaving the platform in droves in protest over the way the site was changing, and new competitors scooping them up.
    Bychloe Taylor, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • The petitions are yet another legal fight over the way the state Department of Corrections calculates parole.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2022
  • The association faced multiple lawsuits over the way agent commissions are set.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Truesdale acknowledges that while it can be regarded as positive that Black women are taking ownership over the way want to feel about themselves, the onus is on both them and the doctors to move ethically.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The Albina area, formerly its own city and now composed of several neighborhoods in North and Northeast Portland, has been the central subject of several discussions over the way the city can and should grow in the future.
    oregonlive, 25 May 2021
  • Stavros never forgot his dad’s frustration and sense of injustice over the way his skills were undervalued and under-rewarded—what that lack of respect did to his father’s spirit.
    Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023

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