hovering

[US]/'hʌvɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. suspension in air; staying in one place in the air
v. to move around a place slowly and aimlessly; to fly in circles

Phrases & Collocations

hovering over

bird hovering

helicopter hovering

hovering around

Example Sentences

admirers hovering around a celebrity.

He is hovering between life and death.

The bird is hovering over a mouse.

gulls hovering over the waves.

she felt twitchy about the man hovering in the background.

A four-oared galley is hovering about.

I'm hovering between the concert and the play tonight.

His imagination paints himself hovering in the sky.

The helicopter was hovering about 100 metres above the pad.

hovering around the speaker's podium.See Synonyms at flutter

What the team discovered is that the key to the hoverfly’s successful hovering is the flexibility of its wings.

she always had men hovering round her like bees round a honeypot .

Over 40 Earths could line up along the vast length of the fireless flame of hovering hot gas.

At either end of the slave coffle, like living bookends, were the Haydonites, Veidt and Sarna, hovering some few inches off the deck-plates.

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