overhang

Example Sentences

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The 1960s stucco apartment house in Santa Monica had an overhanging red roof and wide, wooden balconies, something like a cross between a bungalow motel and a Japanese minka.

From New York Times

Also, with two overhanging views of both goal creases.

From Seattle Times

"Despite rising 1Q gold prices, cost pressures and low volumes represent an overhang into financial results," said analysts at RBC Capital Markets.

From Reuters

In the early days it was scary to walk in six-foot-high stands of sugarcane and other tall crops where the animals could hide or along dry streambeds with overhanging shrubbery where they might rest.

From Scientific American

So his vantage point feels arbitrary and off-balance, encouraging us to feel both the bridge’s overhanging presence and the powerful current against which the tugboat toils.

From Washington Post