How to Use hover in a Sentence

hover

1 of 2 verb

• The country hovers on the brink of famine.
• Bees hovered around the hive.
• Watch as the hummingbird hovers over the flowers.
• The patient was hovering between life and death.
• Waiters hovered near our table.
• Temperatures will continue to hover around freezing.
• Unemployment rates were hovering around 10 percent.
• The Cougars’ lead hovered between nine and 14 points the rest of the way.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024
• The Celtics love to hover their heels over the precipice just for kicks.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• For three seasons, Tatis has hovered in the 150s for wRC+.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2023
• In most states, her share of the vote hovered at around 25 percent or less.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
• Warplanes swarmed low in the sky, seeming to hover one above the other.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2023
• The green and purple balloons hovered in the humid air.
  — USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
• Without the grass and the hill, the piece might be taken for one of the construction cranes that hover over the campus.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• In Michigan, the death toll hovered around 3,000 during those years.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
• The specter of bankruptcy has hovered over WeWork for some time.
  — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
• The herd of wild Banker horses that call this part of the Outer Banks home currently hovers just about 100.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 26 July 2023
• Several drones from each side hovered above, some just a few feet over their heads.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
• But Wall Street analysts, by and large, expect prices to hover near their current level for the rest of the year.
  — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2023
• Hummers can hover without the perch, but other birds cannot.
  — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2024
• In most state surveys, Trump is hovering around 50% in a crowded field.
  — TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
• Yet with the bank’s market value now hovering at around $1 billion, down about 95% from the start of the year, no buyer has emerged.
  — Telis Demos, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• That’s a true goliath, as the average in U.S. waters hovers around 8 pounds.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• Despite a healthy smattering of younger hip-hop heads, much of the crowd hovered around 50, give or take a few years, and the energy waned a bit a few times.
  — cleveland, 13 Aug. 2023
• The spirit hovers and observes and always seems to know where the action is; nothing escapes its view.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
• Overhead, white fairy terns hover and peep among coconut trees.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• Wind chills will hover around zero degrees early in the morning and will stay in the single digits throughout the day.
  — The Courier-Journal, 15 Jan. 2024
• The brown-and-white hawk briefly relented, hovering a few feet overhead before swooping down again to try to wrest the snake from Jones.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• At the foot of the staircase, a small area is well suited as a home office, and at the top, the bedroom hovers above the living space below and looks out over the city through the massive windows.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
• While hovering over a beach in Australia, a drone captured footage of a dog’s close scrape with a crocodile lurking just offshore.
  — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024

Advertisement

hover

2 of 2 noun

• The underside of the roof is clad in teak and hovers over the house.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 28 Feb. 2024
• Press your hips up to the ceiling then lower down to a hover.
  — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-Cpt, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2021
• Is he prepared to have this hover over the team for a season or two?
  — cleveland, 8 June 2022
• On the one hand, this isn’t a team built for its current hover-around-.500-brand of mediocrity.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2021
• But the confluence of these two events hovers in the background.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2023
• The threat of death—or at least the loss of capacity to function well—hovers over me.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023
• On the day of our second interview, the specter of a writers strike hovers.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 9 May 2023
• This gives the group their other common name, hover flies.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 1 June 2023
• Engage your core and glutes and lower down with control, and stop when your back knee hovers just off the ground.
  — Women's Health, 22 Feb. 2023
• Atlanta is coming off a Friday that saw the high hover around 70.
  — Matt Bruce, ajc, 12 Feb. 2022
• The prototype’s spec sheet lists a top speed of 50 mph, a max hover of about eight feet and a 40-minute range when fully charged.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 Jan. 2022
• Your left knee should form a 90-degree angle so that your thigh is parallel to the ground and your right knee hovers above the floor.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 18 Jan. 2024
• An old crane hovers above the Hudson, lending the retreat an elegiac feel.
  — Gary Shteyngart, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2023
• Midnight is expected to progress from hover to full flight in the coming months.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2023
• That balance and power is challenged on this hover to drive lunge move.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
• On the day of the visit, the increasingly unhinged Eva hovers outside the room, fuming.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
• Impulse plans to fly one of these on orbit before the Mars launch, and also demonstrate a hover test on Earth next year.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 27 July 2022
• No matter what happens, the threat of a bad growing season hovers over farmers like the dark skies that loomed over their fields for months.
  — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 6 May 2023
• As the theme plays, Professor X is shown in a yellow hover chair, exactly like that from the Fox cartoon.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 May 2022
• So, focus closely on the gobbler’s neck where black feathers meet red skin, let your bead or red dot hover just above the big caruncles and … bang!
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 21 Apr. 2023
• One of the most unique qualities of the V-BAT is its ability to launch and recover from a hover position.
  — Dallas News, 28 July 2021
• When Mario enters a pipe wearing the drill mushroom, his drill hat hovers for a second outside the pipe before a hand reaches out to snatch it back.
  — Ash Parrish, The Verge, 20 Oct. 2023
• The aircraft has already been doing tethered hover tests and high-speed taxi tests, using landing gear in place of the skids planned for the final design.
  — Eric Adams, Wired, 12 June 2020
• Typically, a seat on a JSX flight hovers around what a first-class seat may cost on a commercial airline.
  — Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
• But turning that into a column of the same number of cards—with no hover state—is simply unworkable.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• The cool auto-hover feature is ideal for flying over your friends, hovering to gloat.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2022
• Today, the state’s jobless rate hovers at 3.3 percent, with plenty of job openings, even amid a string of tech sector layoffs.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
• But the future of the practice could be in doubt as the town's population hovers near the minimum number of residents needed to keep it alive.
  — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2024
• Typically, a seat on a JSX flight hovers around what a first-class seat may cost on a larger commercial airline.
  — Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2023
• The mechanism at play is known as the Leidenfrost Effect, in which a liquid droplet hovers over a very hot surface, rather than making contact with it.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024