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.

  • Her protagonists are enigmas--to themselves, the reader, the narrator, and, not least, the mysterious men who hover at the edge of their lives, in love with them.

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

  • Why, for instance, would a vampire who can hover a good 20 feet above the pavement have to scramble frantically over a chain-link fence when being chased by Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

  • 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.


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