- present participle of hover.
hovering
Example Sentences
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The screen looked almost like a cheerful kitchen-table flat-lay: products arranged over a wood-grain background, hovering around a GoPuff bag as though someone had just come home and emptied the evening’s provisions onto the table.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
They noted that long-term gilts are currently hovering near multidecade highs.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Stocks are hovering near record highs and corporate earnings are still robust—signs that higher interest payments aren’t squeezing economic growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Loans within publicly traded business-development companies, which are marketed to individual investors, that have been materially modified after origination have been hovering near their highest levels in at least a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
But I could feel Mom hovering over me all night.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
