Hovering Sentence Examples

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  • She glanced toward the lingering attackers hovering like vultures.

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  • She trailed instead, eyes on the much smaller craft hovering near the tree.

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  • Jump off the platform, hovering as close to the wall as possible.

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  • In the northern United States, in May, " legions of these delicate minute flies fill the air at twilight, hovering over wheat-fields and shrubbery.

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  • Underslung loads normally require accurate position adjustments within the ground cushion; however, hovering in the ground cushion can rapidly lead to white-out.

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  • Most of the lodgers were about their daily activities, with Fred off to the post office, Maria doing her duties with her usual exuberance, and the Deans hovering close by.

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  • Jasmine spots Daz hovering close by, and she goes to check he's okay after noting that he looks tearful.

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  • Shipton swore and began to fumble with his line to rappel again, down to the now injured and trapped form hovering below him.

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  • Giant bird swooping low Quickly darting, hovering slow, Eye glaring, beak tearing, Prey eaten out of sight.

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  • It stunned him to feel the planet breathing, struggling back to life after hovering so long on the edge of death.

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  • In such transparent and seemingly bottomless water, reflecting the clouds, I seemed to be floating through the air as in a balloon, and their swimming impressed me as a kind of flight or hovering, as if they were a compact flock of birds passing just beneath my level on the right or left, their fins, like sails, set all around them.

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  • With the divorce rate in the United States hovering at about 50 percent, being together for 10 years outside of Hollywood is no small feat.

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  • As of the Fall 2010/Spring 2011 semesters, the average cost of an online MBA degree was more than $20,000, with minimum costs hovering around $10,000.

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  • A spell book will randomly appear and when it does, you'll see a centerfold like picture of a blonde woman with a heart hovering over her butt.

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  • Rumors that the Nintendo DS would receive a web browser have long been hovering on the internet.

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  • You will play mostly from a third-person perspective with the camera hovering just behind Little Mac.

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  • Others find that imagining a white light hovering over the painful area can actually lessen the pain for brief periods.

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  • Kiwi is between the two, hovering at about twice the punch of oranges.

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  • Keeping the computer in a common area of the house such as in a den or kitchen, can help you monitor their Internet time without hovering and smothering.

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  • Hovering around the $1,500 mark, the Sony VAIO SR Series of laptops is sleek, fast and stylish.

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  • With snorkeling, all family members capable of swimming can enjoy hovering near the surface of the water while using a mask to see and a snorkel to breathe.

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  • And hovering over her is a mysterious presence...

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  • The death dealer touched a gloved finger to a blank spot on the construction paper, and an orchid sprung up, ethereal and hovering over the paper.

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  • She'd be lucky to get any sleep with the vamps hovering over her and before facing one god no longer under her influence and another with a wild streak that might get them all killed.

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  • She gritted her teeth in pain and sucked in a breath as she started to fall again.  She glimpsed demons hovering a short distance away over an opening in the jungle.  They looked like massive, angry hornets before disappearing from her line of sight.  A branch grabbed her arm this time and threw her back over the treetops.  This time, she faced a different direction and saw a sprawling palace the size of a mall.

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  • Police Motorcycles guided the funeral cars through the mid-day traffic as a hovering helicopter kept a watchful eye on the proceeding cavalcade.

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  • Helicopters and the Harrier GR7 will also be hovering over the beach and you could be injured by downwash or jet exhausts.

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  • Birds of prey are often to be seen hovering over motorway embankments.

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  • Even kestrels are hovering low, their sharp eyesight blunted by the vapors below them.

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  • The hummingbird feeders which are also on the balcony mean you get to see these tiny hovering jewels just inches away.

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  • Then, he realizes in terror that the knife is hovering above his right nipple.

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  • What if tomorrow morning, you walked out of your door and saw an enormous spaceship hovering over your entire city?

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  • On the morning of our visit the lofty summit was attended by its own small cloud, hovering reverently overhead.

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  • Feeding a video game habit can get expensive, especially with prices hovering around $60 a game.

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  • Two men were hovering around Electronics trying to find out where they could wait in line.

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  • A common report is a sensation of hovering above their physical bodies or observing from the corner of a room.

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  • Place your toes and elbows/forearms on a mat, so that your body is "hovering" a foot or so above the floor.

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  • Lie down on the floor with your knees pointing up and lower legs hovering parallel to the floor.

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  • Heavy and thick cables are used and sometimes they are the only thing keeping a hovering crab trap from crashing to the deck.

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  • In the upper right, there is a small icon showing the silhouette of two people, and hovering your mouse over it reveals that this is "Friend Requests."

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  • Again, it can be a really special experience, hovering beneath the surface and watching your child serenely glide toward you.

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  • Normally these day-flying moths are encountered hovering at flowers - they don't alight to feed.

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  • They had about 20 cars, a few riot vans, sniffer dogs and a Police helicopter hovering overhead.

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  • Ully obeyed.  They crept through the hallways, avoiding any that seemed crowded.  Toby followed the directions he saw in his memories and led them to a small chamber near the center of the fortress.  They entered and closed the door, seeing the open portal hovering in the middle.  He took Ully's hand, and they stepped into it.

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  • Kutusov was hovering on the outskirts of the city, his main body at Kaluga, some marches to the S.W., where he was in full communication with the richest portion of the empire; and now news arrived that St.

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  • But the persistent demand produced a supply; and the honour of identification with Prester John, after hovering over one head and another, settled for a long time upon that of the king of the Nestorian tribe of Kerait, famous in the histories of Jenghiz under the name of Ung or Awang Khan.

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  • Io, I I it is Jesus who sees the Spirit descending upon Himself on His emerging from beneath the water, and it is to Himself that God's voice is addressed; in John, Jesus' baptism is ignored, only the Spirit remains hovering above Him, as a sign for the Baptist's instruction.

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  • Storefronts facing south were opening their doors to the summer-warm sun in spite of the temperature still hovering in the twenties.

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  • The electricity of a hovering or a passing cloud would thus be carried off slowly and silently; and if the cloud was highly charged, the lightning would strike in preference the elevated conductors.'

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  • Howie's total conversational contributions, if not discussing his flowers, were hovering entreaties if everyone had enough to eat or drink.

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  • Then, though flushed quite as suddenly, it will fly round the intruder, at times almost hovering over his head.

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  • For some years before Catherine died it was obvious that he was hovering on the border of insanity.

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  • They showed themselves in battles hovering over the heads of the combatants in the form of a carrion crow.

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  • It seems as though there were always a number of young men hovering on the brink of such suicidal despair.

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  • When she awoke, it was to find the face of the boy, Toby, hovering over hers.

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  • Nevertheless, of the death of a man, and of a maihem done in great ships, being and hovering in the main stream of great rivers, only beneath the [[[bridges]]] of the same rivers [nigh] to the sea, and in none other places of the same rivers, the admiral shall have cognizance, and also to arrest ships in the great flotes for the great voyages of the king and of the realm; saving always to the king all manner of forfeitures and profits thereof coming; and he shall have also jurisdiction upon the said flotes, during the said voyages only; saving always to the lords, cities, and boroughs, their liberties and franchises."

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  • The train crouched silent on the tracks in a feline pose, as if hovering over a kill.

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