Example sentences for: hovering

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

  • The LAT 's front-page spread on Hussein reports that Jordan is in deep mourning already, with people hovering in dread beside their television sets to await official word.

  • To the right of this temple, on a tall column, is a gilded image of King Yoganarendra Malla (1684–1705) seated on a throne, unperturbed by a hooded cobra hovering over him.

  • In the schematic role of a sober, family-man gambler called Knish, John Turturro proves that he doesn't always need to chew the scenery: Mumbling, hovering, shuffling in the margins, he makes you watch him closely to discern his real, complicated feelings.

  • Asked whether the proposed establishment of a Near Earth Object Task Force wasn't rather a limp response to such a cataclysmic threat, a spokesman for the Science Ministry said defensively, "It's not as if there are asteroids hovering above the earth."

  • Now, the white lines' dot and dash makes my hand less steady on the wheel, the stoplight glimmers a shade too red-- the faith I've never felt in the day to day haunts me like some imp-winged demon in a Bosch painting, its infantile, red-bawling face staring accusingly into my eyes as if it dared to fly beyond the gilt frame, hectoring, hovering, sluggish wings buzzing like the winter-hatched fly stumbling spastic against the dashboard dials, its frail internal compass somehow gone haywire overridden by spurts and shocks.


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