warm over

Example Sentences

• "If you have fried mush left in slices from breakfast, it can be warmed in the oven and made as good as new, or cold fried eggs can be warmed over, or new ones boiled in a trice."
• "He warmed over the remains of last night's coffee, ate a beef sandwich, and then continued on toward Cheyenne, the mount readily taking the gallop asked of him."
• "Hale saved half the steak to be warmed over for breakfast."
• "Growth companies, like most others, face several challenges when developing a budget. They include: […] Building a budget that reflects the dynamic environment in which growth companies exist; not just "warming over" last year's version."
• "He had never written about buttercups. Never. He had warmed over the dead gods of the months and he had written about wasps a couple of times, wrung some wonder from contemplating their world of insectual intent—the papery nests, the cells of mathematical perfection, the nurses and the workers, the grubs that waited for transformation behind their silken doors, their black eyes perfectly visible. . . . One column had been particularly good, something about wasps in the fall, crawling into houses or garages to prolong their lives a little."
• "When Cruz does talk about fraud in the book, he does so in an amusingly lawyerly way. He’s more than willing to warm over a wide array of right-wing boogeymen from the days of yore — both ACORN and the New Black Panther Party make appearances — but he generally constrains his claims about fraud in ways that leave him an escape hatch back to reality."