[ UK /hˈɒvɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈhəvɝ/ ]
VERB
  1. hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
    The terrible vision brooded over her all day long
  2. hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
  3. move to and fro
    The shy student lingered in the corner
  4. be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
    The guru claimed that he could levitate
  5. be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
    He oscillates between accepting the new position and retirement
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How To Use hover In A Sentence

  • Yea, we see in that wailing infant of a week, the outspringing of an immortal spirit which may soon hover on cherub-pinion around the throne of God, or perhaps, in a few years, sink to the regions of untold anguish. The Christian Home
  • For a few odd and unsettling moments, the song hovers on its own, left virtually untouched except for the subtle fuzz of static in the background.
  • Aides hovered round like royal courtiers before he made a fleeting appearance climbing on board the City of Chicago. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pilot straps himself to this bulky rig in a standing position, controlling it with joysticks during vertical takeoff and landing - or VTOL, as we say in the hover biz.
  • Minutes after they escaped, there was a fire flashover and the whole building went up in flames.
  • Left of center a circular form hovers between the foreground and back-ground: both cell-like and lunar, it is concealed and revealed by waves of golden brown toner.
  • Most had fresh bruises, which he himself no doubt had inflicted, and looked to be even easier pushovers than before.
  • The Go-Betweens reside in a strange hinterland full of candyfloss and loneliness that hovers between critical adoration and public ignorance.
  • For three hours a mysterious cloud of acrid smoke hovered over some of London's busiest streets. Times, Sunday Times
  • The organist was a slightish man, white-haired, who seemed to hover in the alcove, his back to the audience, wizardly in his very smallness, and he hit the thunder pedal just as a figure on the screen drew back cowering from some danger above, and laughter swept the auditorium. Underworld
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