all over
Example Sentences
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"It was an aching sadness, an all-over weariness, a sudden disinterest in the world around me - in tennis, above all," she wrote.
From BBC • Sep. 3, 2022
It's the perfect, just-set icing on top of pastries, cookies, and cakes at your favorite bakeries — perhaps most identified as the all-over glaze atop petit fours.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2021
Rather than the all-over, canvas-filling brush strokes favored by other abstract painters, Mitchell’s works were looser, gathered away from the edges.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021
“We wanted to focus on classic characters like Elmo and the Count and do an edgier all-over print.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2019
Her neck and wrists were bare, and her hair was a mess—a pile, an all-over glob of red curls.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
