Example sentences for: hover

How can you use “hover” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Throughout the city, crumbling houses three and four stories tall, somehow still standing, line backstreets where children play stickball and their parents and grandparents hover around doorstoops.

  • Another helicopter did attempt to do so, and its pilot stated that the severity of the heat from the jet fuel-laden fire in the North Tower would have made it impossible to hover low enough for a rescue, because the high temperature would have destabilized the helicopter.

  • Gulls hover over lobster pots or perch on rocky outcrops; channel markers float on the surface and small lighthouses appear on the horizon.

  • This question on Bush's intelligence will hover over the campaign, I suspect, for the duration--a matter that will be hashed over in many a Breakfast Table.

  • It’s impossible to even count all of the delightful churches worth visiting in Rome (unofficial counts hover at 250), many of which are commonly stumbled on by accident.


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