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communicate successfully
I couldn't get across the message
He put over the idea very well -
hold back to a later time
let's postpone the exam
How To Use put over In A Sentence
- I put over the wounds a great plaster of diachylum, wherewith I had mixed oil of roses, and vinegar, to avoid inflammation. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
- The visuals of the two of them put over a mood of desperation and unpleasantness that doesn't come over in the records so much - its better just to hear it.
- Did you feel that you managed to put over your point of view?
- They have looked into loaning some covers to put over the pitch tomorrow night in case of overnight frost.
- Did you feel that you managed to put over your point of view?
- Also available for $14.98 was a grey and black version of the shrunken vest Victorya put over her design, but I passed on that, because really, for most of us, "shrunken" is just a code word for "impractical. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
- The nanotube is the smallest tube on earth and we have found a sleeve to put over it, PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
- Worn on your lips and eyelids, it will give any colour you put over it a proper punch. The Sun
- The points came from Chris Paterson, who landed five nerveless penalties from five kicks, and from Dan Parks, who put over a drop goal at an absolutely critical stage of the second half.
- A great deal of what she designs is both ridiculous and unwearable, but viewing this representation of her output over decades it becomes clear that fashion is merely a means to an end.