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Example sentences for "given over"

  • The prophet draws another picture, that of a garden not irrigated, and therefore, in the burning East, given over to barrenness.

  • He is given over to hallucinations and illusions and dreams.

  • When a people is given over to such excess, late or soon the fate of Samaria comes upon them.

  • But for five or six hundred years the town was given over to the caprice of desecrators.

  • Such beginnings presaged, surely, something greater than our humanity of the present day, given over to despair, to alcohol and to explosives!

  • All those who, at their first arrest, had denied their faith, were themselves cast into prison and given over to the same sufferings as the other martyrs, for their denial did not serve them at all.

  • What physicians should do when a patient is given over.

  • When a man is given over, the fee should surely be refused.

  • Sadly she resumes her armour, woe-begone at the thought of the Wälsung, given over to death.

  • Fasolt is a good giant, his shaggy hair is blond, his fur-tunic white, and his soft big heart all given over to the touchingly lovely Freia.

  • Where competition is sharp, companies directed by their owners may supplant those of which the direction is given over to hired managers.

  • Some of the articles of the kind A''' will have to be given over to the men who keep the tools, buildings, etc.

  • Parochial property, on the illegal appointment of a pastor, is given over to be administered by a lay commissioner.

  • Two city churches had to be given over to the Catholics, and Possevin conducted an active Catholic propaganda, which was ended only when Livonia, in A.

  • All its institutions and schools were then closed, while Mary herself was imprisoned and given over to the Inquisition in Rome.

  • Indeed, save for the fact that wine is not grown in Normandy, the whole region is given over to the growing of much the same crops, which seem to thrive in so many parts elsewhere.

  • Oftentimes the whole town will be found to be given over to the great local event, with the churches and musées closed, and the tables d'hôtes overcrowded.

  • If any art should be given over to impressionalism it seems as if it should be painting.

  • Don't make a public-crier of your Achilles," said the master to some one with a rich organ, given over to its own uncultivated power.

  • Practically the whole transportation system was given over to the movement of troops and army supplies.

  • Others have been rendered single-seeing through obsessional use of the monocular lens, given over to proof of the presupposition.

  • A full two-thirds of the wall-height is given over to lighting apertures.

  • In fact, so much is given over to the glazier as to necessitate the erection of a stout buttress which runs up the centre, and without the assistance of which the slender mullions would be unable to support so great a weight of glass.

  • Even the most casual observer, and one entirely unlearned in our beautiful art, cannot fail to notice how large an amount of wall-space is given over to ancient glass in York Minster.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "given over" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first they; four lemons; given above; given amount; given back; given effect; given from; given him; given moment; given number; given period; given place; given point; given space; given state; given substance; given the; given thing; given three; given twice; given unto; given volume; given weight; make mistakes; opening the; steal away