How to Use over the way in a Sentence

over the way

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  • 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
  • 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
  • Brady sounded bitter over the way he has been treated by management.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2021
  • In some ways, the race exemplified the growing divide over the way to move forward.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
  • How does Hae Sung not harbour any animus over the way things ended the last time around?
    Hazlitt, 15 May 2024
  • There’s also tension over the way the UC has handled public funds.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2021
  • This time, tensions have reached a boiling point over the way streaming has steamrolled the industry.
    Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Animal lovers have been left in stitches over the way a cat is adjusting to having a new puppy in the house.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Just over the way from Disney World, the players could see nightly firework displays from their rooms.
    Sam Lee, The Athletic, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Already, there is criticism over the way that a single narrative has been adopted that lacks nuance.
    Anneliese M. Schenk-Day, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Burgos is hardly the only one to raise alarm bells over the way landlords would react to Mamdani's policies.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
  • Family members of the teens expressed outrage over the way police handled the arrests.
    Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 29 June 2021
  • Rosenthal could not stop gushing over the way Hagenman persevered through his journey, team by team, year by year.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Hodge and Sharp bring a light touch to their characters’ growing consternation over the way Ray speaks to their son.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 18 May 2025
  • 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
  • Fairly or unfairly, popes are often credited with an outsized influence over the way the world is managed.
    Time, 7 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There has been controversy for decades over the way menthols have been marketed to African Americans.
    Fortune, 21 Apr. 2021
  • His frustration over the way the game was officiated, which could have some merit, and the way his team performed must have been what boiled over — which would’ve been quite human in the moment.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Trump sued the network over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In seeking a stay of his ruling, lawyers for the state said Florida would have no control over the way gender-affirming care is provided if the decision is not blocked.
    Dara Kam, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • 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
  • On the other end of the phone, her mother defended her daughter and shared in her frustrations over the way Charlie conducts himself with Riley.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 18 June 2025
  • 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
  • Per a 2023 law, Hoosiers will have a new method to know and exercise control over the way their personal data is used by companies, or used at all.
    Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 30 Dec. 2025
  • That’s why many shopping chatbots essentially grab product listings and then present a user with a web link to buy on that retailer’s site — not much of an advancement over the way things have been done for years.
    Spencer Soper, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2025
  • 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

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