given over to
Example Sentences
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The scene in which Katya discovers who informed on her dissident father, who subsequently was arrested and never seen again, is a moving moment in an evening largely given over to sillier ones.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
Lens have held top spot since November 30 and will stay there for at least another fortnight as next weekend is given over to the French Cup.
From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026
There is a larger room in the England hotel set aside for the captain, which Stokes has not given over to Pope.
From BBC • Jul. 30, 2025
Some of his notes are literally scrawled on the back—the verso in artistic terms—of the art, while others were clearly composed and submitted when the pieces were given over to the Navy.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025
Evenings were often given over to discussions and meetings with local poets, painters, musicians, and writers of fiction, at which they praised or condemned other artists, scorned the marketplace and courted it.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
