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How to use ower in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, preposition, adverb

Ower means a person who owes something, especially money. Example: “Get ower thor noo!”

Examples of ower by meaning

prepositionOver.

  • Get ower thor noo!

adverbOver.

  • She's ower canny hor, like

adjectiveOverly, too.

  • Thats ower much that!

More sentences with ower

  • Deeky the clip of that aad wife ower thor!From the entry clip
  • Ye taalk ower pitmatic for a lad from Gatesheed.From the entry pitmatic
  • You’ll never guess what Wollheim’s men have found!¶ A forest full of perfect echo-flowers.¶ Honest to Foo!2004 September, Jack Speer, “Last and First Fen”, in Noreascon 4 Souvenir Book, page 57. From the entry foo
  • Sandra, her man, Raymond an his wife, sprauchle ower roots an bushes, hurryin through the trees.2001, Janet Paisley, Not for Glory, page 265. From the entry sprauchle
  • "'E's got th' monkey on 'is back ower this letter job," said the father secretly to me.1922, D. H. Lawrence, “Wintry Peacock,”, in England, My England. From the entry monkey on one's back
  • It's rain afoor meeght, t'sun waded sadly ez sha peeped ower Roseberry.1911, Richard Blakeborough, Wit, Character, Folklore & Customs of the North Riding of Yorkshire, page 486. From the entry wade
  • Jump Jamp Jumpit: He jamp ower the dyke.1982, Mary Murray, In My Ain Words An East Neuk Vocabulary, page 5. From the entry jamp
  • Geordie and me ganned roond bi the plantation and ower the medders tae the back o' Mr Verney's hoose.1962, Edward Grierson, The Massingham Affair, page 192. From the entry ganned
  • "Titter oop t' sprunt sud ower a bit.1900, Emma Brooke, The Engrafted Rose: A Novel, page 100. From the entry scufter
  • Oh! hae ye watched him wave aloft The thistle ower the roses, While cowering, glowering Saxons quake At a towzier beard than Moses'1900, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould, A Pictorial History of Political Events Connected with South Africa. From the entry towzier

Meaning of ower

  1. noun A person who owes something, especially money.
  2. preposition Over.
  3. adverb Over.

Full definition of ower

Questions about ower in a sentence

How do you use ower in a sentence?
Ower is used as a noun, preposition and adverb. For example: “Get ower thor noo!”
What is a short sentence with ower?
“Get ower thor noo!”
What does ower mean?
Ower means a person who owes something, especially money.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ower (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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