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Example sentences for "hover"

Lexicographically close words:
hove; hoved; hovel; hovels; hoven; hovered; hovering; hovers; hoving; how
  1. Also they do say the spirit hovers where the body lies; I would have my spirit hover near thee, and the kirkyard is not far from the manse.

  2. My spirit will hover round the loved ones I leave on earth.

  3. Thy gorgeous skies have floated hither, and hover like a halo round the town.

  4. Can it be, that the spirits of departed friends hover near us while on earth, and draw closer in hours of woe?

  5. May thy spirit hover round me now, as in life thou wert my guardian angel!

  6. Then stormy waves rush on to drown, Or raging flames come scorching round, Fierce dragons hover in the air, And serpents crawl along the ground.

  7. One need not die to hover outside the warm circle of life, stretching vain arms.

  8. I hover over my racked body like a ghost, and exist in an interregnum.

  9. Then his breast swelled with sobs; in a strange ecstasy his spirit seemed to soar from his body, and hover lovingly over all the motley multitude.

  10. The angels fly at his command, With love their bosoms swelling, They lead us gently by the hand,-- They hover round our dwelling.

  11. If yet thy gentle spirit hover nigh The spot where now thy mouldering ashes lie, Here wilt thou read, recorded on my heart, A grief too deep to trust the sculptor's art.

  12. And Morn in secret shall renew the tear Of Consciousness awaking to her woes, And Fancy hover o'er thy bloodless bier, Till my frail frame return to whence it rose, And mourn'd and mourner lie united in repose.

  13. They represent the Christ triumphant, seated on a dais between two angels, one bearing a staff and the other a veil, while above hover two other angelic figures holding respectively the moon and sun.

  14. It has been restored in recent times, but is much hidden by the houses which hover around its walls.

  15. For I reflect that though my face grows wrinkled and drawn with years, there must yet hover something about its ugly surface which tells of a good will within.

  16. She moved her hand, and again I felt the brown bird hover Over my heart .

  17. Again, I saw a brown bird hover Over the flowers at my feet; I felt a brown bird hover Over my heart, and sweet Its shadow lay on my heart.

  18. May good angels hover round him, may the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob guard him!

  19. Others, a larger number, darted here and there above the roofs, some hovering in the water as gulls hover in the air, lazily, but the majority apparently on business or work to be executed with dispatch.

  20. The whole was snow-white, and gleamed softly in an artificial light dispensed from an enormous artificial planet that seemed to hover above the ramparts.

  21. Flocks of paroquets and cockatoos, of most brilliant plumage, hover above them, while the blue-ringed tomtits sport beneath their branches.

  22. At this time many thousands of birds die a violent death, and the old inhabitants of the cave hover above the heads of the Indians with piercing cries, as if they would defend their broods.

  23. But she continued to hover around the church, and seems to have had full freedom of entrance in the daytime, and special license, on one occasion at least, at a late hour of the night.

  24. Now some peoples fancy that when they advance to battle the spirits of their fathers hover in the van.

  25. When Dunwoodie left his detachment, the enemy were known to be slowly advancing, and he directed Lawton to hover around them, until his own return, and the arrival of a body of foot, might enable him to intercept their retreat.

  26. See how in a living swarm they come From the chambers beyond that misty veil; Some hover awhile in air, and some Rush prone from the sky like summer hail.

  27. To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke, To ward away the battle stroke, And bid its blendings shine afar, Like rainbows on the cloud of war, The harbingers of victory!

  28. Again, one of the foremost dangers supposed to hover round the new-born infant was the propensity of witches and fairies to steal the most beautiful and well-favored children, and to leave in their places such as were ugly and stupid.

  29. Singular speculations hover in my mind as the scene darkens and the quadrangle below begins to empty in the last hours of night.

  30. Love will hover round the flowers when they first awaken; Love will fly the fallen leaf, and not be overtaken; Low, my lute!

  31. I had thrown myself into my arm-chair one day—it was in the latter part of a protracted and severe winter—and was gradually losing myself in the sweet and soothing play of feelings that always hover about me here.

  32. He has wandered far into darkness; and round him Sin and Shame hover evermore.

  33. They sail with its currents, and hover over the ocean, and roll in huge masses round the stony shoulders of great mountains.

  34. Its dimness seemed to rest on her bright hair and to hover in her bright eyes; to soften, as with a faint melancholy, the brightness of her smile.

  35. The soft, frightened hover seemed to go all over it, to recognize it finally, and to draw back, terrified, from recognition.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hover" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aeroplane; airlift; airplane; approach; aspire; await; balance; balloon; brew; confront; cruise; dance; debate; deliberate; demur; drift; face; falter; fear; ferry; flicker; flit; flitter; float; flutter; fly; gather; glide; hang; hesitate; hop; hover; hydroplane; impend; jib; kite; loom; lour; lower; menace; navigate; near; overhang; pause; plane; poise; ponder; retreat; sail; scruple; seaplane; shy; soar; spiral; spire; stickle; strain; threaten; volplane; wing; yield; zoom