over the way

idiom

British

: across from someone on the other side of the street

They live over the way from us.

Examples of over the way in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web How does Hae Sung not harbour any animus over the way things ended the last time around? —

Hazlitt, 15 May 2024 The Realtors association faced multiple lawsuits over the way agent commissions are set. —

Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2024 And then there’s international pressure and outrage over the way Israel has pursued a war that has seen upwards of 32,000 dead, more than a million people displaced and a manmade famine looming over Gaza. —

Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024 The association faced multiple lawsuits over the way agent commissions are set. —

Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024 The about-face disclosed Friday is the latest twist in a bitter fight between Apple and Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite video game, over the way iPhone apps are distributed and the fees for digital transactions that occur within them. —

Michael Liedtke, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024 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 After years of worry over the way people interpret the National Hurricane Center’s forecast cone graphic, the weather center will bring an experimental new graphic online this summer. —

USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024 In some ways, the race exemplified the growing divide over the way to move forward. —

Brenda Goodman, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024

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