Example sentences for: hover

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

  • This pilot's helicopter never attempted to hover directly over the tower.

  • 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.

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

  • Perched so often on scaffolding as he painted, Tiepolo rather naturally developed a fascination for things that hover and fly, or flutter and fall.

  • 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.


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