Hovered Sentence Examples

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  • The helo hovered near the edge of the plateau.

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  • He hovered over her all the way to the door and then opened it for her.

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  • The temperature hovered around twenty-five and the sun was brilliant.

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  • Darkyn's face hovered next to hers.

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  • While the ark carried with Israel's host symbolized His presence in their midst, He was also known to be present in the cloud which hovered before the host and in the lightning ('esh Yahweh or " fire of Yahweh ") and the thunder (kol Yahweh or " voice of Yahweh ") which played around Mount Sinai.

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  • The waiters hovered about in white uniforms with red cummerbunds.

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  • We hovered at 600ft to check the area then reduced throttle and finally cut the engines before a nice soft sandy touchdown.

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  • He had exhibited in the numbers of the Vieux Cordelier almost a disregard of the death which he must have known hovered over him.

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  • A DMS Model 12 sentry droid hovered silently near the power generator before moving on again in its proscribed circuit.

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  • We then joined the supernumerary members of the expedition on an adjacent slag heap, over which the UFO was said to have hovered.

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  • The plateau was too small for it to land, but it hovered near the edge.

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  • As of 2007, the population hovered around 2.2 million in a 600 mile square area.

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  • So, she hovered in the quiet darkness for a while, until the sounds of the outside world were too loud for her to ignore.

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  • The other half numbered in the hundreds.  The winged demons hovered around the portal and then took off in separate directions, swooping low above the jungle.

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  • When gas prices hovered at all-time highs, prepaid gas cards became a popular way to save money on fuel budgets as prices went up.

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  • Death's hand hovered over the pages, and she turned them quickly without touching them.

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  • Her mind was too busy, and she felt as if she hovered on the verge of a mental breakdown.

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  • In the Jewish Church Ecclesiasticus hovered on the border of the canon; in the Christian Church it crossed and recrossed the border.

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  • A motley host, made up out of the tribes bordering on the Black Sea and the Caspian, hovered round his small army, but failed to hinder him from laying siege to the town.

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  • The idea of a universal force of gravitation seems to have hovered on the borders of this great man's mind, without ever fully entering it.

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  • Julie then hovered over Molly, instructing her daughter to mind everything we said, pick up after herself, and do everything necessary to be a perfect little house guest.

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  • Mansr's small spacecraft dropped from the sky and hovered above him, following as he darted toward the sacred cave.

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  • Rev. Martin and his socially conscious wife must have dined there many a time, perhaps as poor Annie, like some wayward match girl, hovered outside.

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  • He turned on his heel as soon as she appeared and strode toward the small area beneath a tree where spacecraft traditionally hovered to release their occupants.

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  • Claire, in her usual manner, said nothing as she departed, but Effie had flustered and hovered about, asking detailed questions about Annie as soon as her sister was out of ear-shot.

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  • They believed that there were in the beginning no heavenly bodies, air or earth, only water everywhere, over which at first hovered a formless Supreme Being called Pha.

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  • The remarkable instance of this after the Conquest was the election of Stephen, but William the Conqueror did not feel secure until he had the sanction of the Londoners to his kingship, and his attitude towards London when he hovered about the neighbourhood of the city for a time shows that he was anxious to obtain this sanction freely rather than by compulsion.

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  • We also hear that long ago he hovered as an enormous bird over the waters, and there deposited an egg.

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  • Rhyn.s pterodactyl shape hovered over the demons at the edge of the forest, one of the creatures dangling in his talons.

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  • They hovered through the air, at last reaching one of the ships, where a doorway yawned open to reveal the damp yellow light and grey corridors beyond.

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  • Cynthia rushed into the room, the notebook still in hand, and with Martha, hovered over the pending demise of the trembling rodent.

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  • All three mourned as they hovered over Jackson's lifeless body.

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  • She helped Betsy in the kitchen and hovered around Bumpus like a hen with chicks.

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