over the boundary
Frequency: 5.84.5 per million words
movement from one side of a physical boundary to the other
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Examples (10)
- The batsman hit the ball powerfully over the boundary for six runs.
- The neighbor's dog keeps jumping over the boundary fence into our garden.
- If the ball goes over the boundary line, the other team gets a point.
- The hikers unknowingly stepped over the boundary into private land.
- Any drone flying over the boundary of the military base will be shot down.
- The deer leaped gracefully over the boundary wall of the national park.
- A surveyor was called to determine if the new shed was built over the boundary.
- The farmer warned them not to let their cattle wander over the boundary.
- Are you allowed to retrieve a ball that has gone over the boundary of the school grounds?
- Soldiers were ordered not to advance over the boundary until the signal was given.