overhanging

Example Sentences

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"These overhanging snow features can be difficult to spot, especially in poor visibility, and may collapse without warning," it said.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

Their staple diet are deer, and they hunt by stealth often pouncing from trees or overhanging rocks.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

But the canal authorities don’t allow overhanging cargo that could hit infrastructure such as light poles at the waterway’s locks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

The goats have also attacked the neighbors and climbed on top of their car in a shared driveway to eat the leaves off an overhanging tree, Paszterko wrote in his Aug. 7 filing.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2024

These people liked to live in caves or in the shelter of overhanging rocks wherever they could find them.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson