Sentence examples for hover like from inspiring English sources

SOME hover like insects, and are not much bigger.

The words hover, like blowflies over a cowpat.

Sails hover like veils above the dead and dying.

These incidents are not picked up next time, just allowed to hover like a dark cloud.

A row of coiffured buns hover like halos behind gleaming faces buffed to a mirror shine.

In Crash Cushion they hover like a threat of megaton disaster.

Hummingbirds can hover like helicopters, and they have the same two problems.

The only other hue is the eerie flesh tone of Gilbert & George's faces, which hover like apparitions in the background.

"A hummingbird can hover like a helicopter for one and a half hours, nonstop," Dr. Tobalske said.

If you're any good, you can shoot up 30ft and hover like a wind-whipped Peter Pan.

When it has reached its maximum height – likely to be 750m – the kite switches to a hover-like mode, where there is little stress on the tether and it can be winched back in ready for the next run, using just a fraction of the power already generated.