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