Thesaurus / hovering
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synonyms for hovering
- aerial
- floating
- soaring
- drifting
- express
- flapping
- fleet
- fluttering
- gliding
- mobile
- streaming
- waving
- winging
- zooming
- aeronautical
- airborne
- avian
- mercurial
- on the wing
- speedy
- volant
- volar
- volitant
- big
- great
- huge
- immense
- large
- lofty
- long
- soaring
- steep
- tremendous
- aerial
- elevated
- giant
- grand
- alpine
- altitudinous
- colossal
- eminent
- formidable
- gigantic
- high-reaching
- high-rise
- sky-high
- sky-scraping
- towering
- uplifted
- upraised
- approaching
- brewing
- imminent
- looming
- coming
- gathering
- menacing
- near
- nearing
- overhanging
- portending
- threatening
- at hand
- in the cards
- in the offing
- in the wind
- looking to
- ominous
- on the horizon
- proximate
- see it coming
- waiting to
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How to use hovering in a sentence
Altogether, we spent five consecutive days hovering around that collection of law-enforcers, in imminent risk of capture.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIROccasionally he turned his head to watch with keen eyes the fretful movements of a fly hovering above the water.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSAt least ten men be sides Gwynne were hovering about Dolly Boutts, like humming-birds about the nectar of a full-blown rose.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONShe was hovering over the entrance just as he had seen her on the day he came to take possession.
THE EVERLASTING ARMSJOSEPH HOCKINGThe nurse was hovering about again with a suggestion that it was high time the visitor departed.
THE WEIGHT OF THE CROWNFRED M. WHITEJuana's feminine perception and her keen eye hovering over her salons, brought her nothing but pain.
JUANAHONORE DE BALZACThey scarcely breathed, and the summer night that was so mildly beautiful seemed to take on a sense of hovering danger.
THE MEDICI BOOTSPEARL NORTON SWETThe congregation reminds me of a clover field, with the butterflies hovering over its gaily-colored, bobbing heads.
ALONEMARION HARLANDThe great roof gave a sense of crouching or hovering, for warmth or in menace.
WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERBeautiful women he had seen in plenty, but hovering about this one there was something more than beauty.
THEY LOOKED AND LOVEDMRS. ALEX MCVEIGH MILLERWORDS RELATED TO HOVERING
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