HOVER in a Sentence
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72 example sentences for HOVER, such as:
1. A hawk hovers in the sky.
2. A hawk hovered over the hill.
3. A full moon hovered in the sky.
4. A hawk hovered in the blue sky.
5. The bird is hovering over a mouse.
2. A hawk hovered over the hill.
3. A full moon hovered in the sky.
4. A hawk hovered in the blue sky.
5. The bird is hovering over a mouse.
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Meanings and Examples of HOVER
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hover
v. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
v. move to and fro
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1 I will hover near and direct the steel aright.
2 Pearl's inevitable tendency to hover about the enigma of the scarlet letter seemed an innate quality of her being.
3 Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle.
4 I have said that the company were all gone; but I ought to have excepted Uriah, whom I don't include in that denomination, and who had never ceased to hover near us.
5 To Regina's work-room Lily was therefore committed by her friends, and there Mrs. Fisher left her with a sigh of relief, while Gerty's watchfulness continued to hover over her at a distance.
6 Over Descartian vortices you hover.
7 It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
8 Everywhere, swarms of flies hovered over the men, crawling and buzzing in their faces, everywhere was blood, dirty bandages, groans, screamed curses of pain as stretcher bearers lifted men.
9 The other officers hovered helplessly about, whispering and waving their hands.
10 The other Carpetbaggers and Scallawags who remained were uncertain, frightened, and they hovered together for comfort, wondering what the legislative investigation would bring to light concerning their own private affairs.
11 It was of course impossible to accept a loan from Rosedale; but proximate possibilities hovered temptingly before her.
12 It seemed formed of detached white vapours, rising and falling something like the spouts of the whales; only they did not so completely come and go; for they constantly hovered, without finally disappearing.
13 Shrouded in a thin drooping veil of mist, it hovered for a moment in the rainbowed air; and then fell swamping back into the deep.
14 The mass of women and children stopped, and hovered together like alarmed and fluttering birds.
15 Slowly and reluctantly yielding to the necessity, he quitted the place, and mingled with the throng that hovered nigh.
Example Sentence:
1 He held the aircraft to hover on the lake and listened over his headset.
2 Some birds hover when they look for animals to kill on the ground.
3 Beautiful butterflies hovered above the wild flowers.
4 A hawk hovered in the blue sky.
5 He hovered on the edge of consciousness.
6 The eagle hovered, ready to swoop at any moment.
7 A hawk hovered over the hill.
8 The plane hovered about for several turns before landing.
9 A full moon hovered in the sky.
10 The switch hovered in the air -- the peril was desperate -- "My! Look behind you, aunt!" The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger.
11 According as the shifting obscurity and flickering gleam hovered here or glanced there, it was now the bearded physician, Luke that bent his brow.
12 Nor would most hovering drones stand a chance in the intense storms and blizzards that helicopters sometimes have to fly into.
13 I'm hovering in a makeshift kitchen, watching one of Italy's most eminent marine biologists gleefully playing chef.
14 The bird is hovering over a mouse.
15 A hawk hovers in the sky.