How to Use kick over in a Sentence

kick over

verb
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  • What if kicks over the next 23 days begin to wobble and slice?
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • As legend has it, her cow kicked over a lantern, leading to the fire.
    — Bill Ruthhart, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • In the movies, angry managers throw all the bats into the shower or kick over the postgame spread.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2019
  • Miralem Pjanic swept an early free-kick over the wall and into the back of the net in that game at the San Paolo in March.
    — SI.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • When Fosbury got started in the sport, high jumpers ran parallel to the bar and straddle-kicked over it.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 14 Mar. 2023
  • According to Cheika, the Wallabies’ plan is to try and run through that wall and not chase kicks over it.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Men kicked over trash cans and struck park benches with sledgehammers.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 3 June 2020
  • He’s been known to chew on scenery — literally — and once kicked over a paint can onstage right before the show was about to start.
    — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • There is rarely a good reason to kick over Chesterton’s fence, even when it is chipped and knotted around the edges, and the villagers are scratching their chins.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
  • But just like Palm Sunday service and that Zoom call that could've been an email, every part of our lives has been kicked over to the internet.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 11 Apr. 2020
  • So when your opponent spikes the only card in the deck to beat you, don’t kick over your computer, throw your mouse across the room and cuss out your best friend of 30 years.
    — Murray Valeriano, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Woodruff scored on five breakaways, drilled two of his kicks over the goalkeeper’s head and converted a penalty kick.
    — Union-Tribune, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Instead, Cueva launched his spot kick over the bar and into orbit, and Peru never did end up finding the back of the net in the games that mattered.
    — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 21 June 2018
  • Luckily for him, Alves wasn't called into any real action, as Florian Tardieu failed to get his free-kick over the wall.
    — SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The video showed Campbell kicking over a shopping basket with Haney’s belongings and drawing his weapon.
    — Nicole Hensley, Houston Chronicle, 19 June 2019
  • After kicking over and taking some decorative lights on the front lawn and ripping a Christmas wreath from the front door, Wilson leaves.
    — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • If there is something a machine can’t make a decision on, it gets kicked over to human moderators.
    — Kari Paul, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2017
  • Moments before the sin-binning, Liam Williams flew himself forward like an Olympic diver to catch Biggar’s clever kick over the defense, but video review wiped it out for a knock-on.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2019
  • For the past 18 months, Daniel Harder has been keeping fit in his Harlem apartment with Zoom workouts, using an ironing board as a ballet barre and trying not to kick over the furniture.
    — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The television station reported the teen apparently kicked over a garbage can and verbally threatened a staff member at the home, prompting staff to call the deputy there.
    — Molly Duerig, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Vidal should have scored his and Bayern's second goal of the game when Dani Carvajal was controversially penalised for handball in the box, but the Chilean blasted the resultant spot kick over the bar.
    — SI.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The tackle was reviewed for a possible red-card infraction, but the yellow card stood instead, setting up Reynoso’s bend, beautiful kick over the Seattle wall.
    — Jerry Zgoda, Star Tribune, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Milivojevic’s success relies heavily on the tricky feet of Ivorian winger Wilfried Zaha and his ability to win an insane number of spot kicks over the course of the season.
    — SI.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The team was only allowed to leave after several players were filmed kicking over pails full of milk in a gesture of solidarity.
    — Daniella Matar, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Lock Tevita Cavubati was yellow-carded for carelessly diving shoulder-first into a ruck, and Biggar set up Adams in the left corner with a kick over the defense for a converted score in the 17th.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Trippier struck a sweet free-kick over the Croatia wall in the fifth minute, guiding it perfectly past goalkeeper Danijel Subasic and into the top right scorer.
    — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 11 July 2018
  • Changing the wallpaper to anything else will kick over to a desaturated dark or white logo, depending on the wallpaper.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Surveillance footage from the park shows a woman matching Williams’ description walking up to the statue and drawing on it before kicking over several nearby potted plants.
    — Andy Nguyen, Glendale News-Press, 27 Sep. 2019
  • No More Deaths gave news organizations videos of a Border Patrol agent kicking over water jugs meant for immigrants and of another agent pouring gallons of water on the ground.
    — Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
  • Frustrated beyond manners, some of the wandering have taken to trodding directly across the blankets, nonchalantly kicking over anything in their paths.
    — Jackson Landers, Spin, 14 Aug. 2023

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