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Discover LudwigThe word "hovering" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "hovering" when you want to describe something staying in place in the air without moving or landing. For example: There was a hummingbird hovering near the flower.
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hovering
verb
Present participle of hover
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Manuel Pellegrini, the sword of Abu Dhamocles constantly hovering over his head, will be desperate to finish the season with a sixth victory in a row against a Saints team in a poor run of form (that astonishing first-half, five-goal outlier against Aston Villa apart).
Macmillan's initiative is a telling commentary on an industry hovering on the brink of crisis.
Those owners will wear a tracking device to ensure that Lily follows them, with the device hovering in place and trying to recover the signal if it loses the wearer, before landing "smoothly" – an action also taken if it runs out of battery.
With British trade union membership hovering at about 6.5 million (compared to its 1979 heyday of 13 million) it is thought the union movement can do with all the fresh thinking it can muster.
Instead, Lily is pitched at skiers and snowboarders, athletes and other active types: a hovering alternative to strapping a GoPro camera to their helmets, with the benefit of shooting footage of them, rather than just a first-person viewpoint.
Without trying, I also watched kestrels hovering and glimpsed the low dash of that thrilling ambush predator, the sparrowhawk.
Officers were seen searching undergrowth and the force's helicopter was spotted hovering overhead.
Simmons was struck by the cravat, but also by a third man hovering in the doorway during viewings.
Gary Barlow might have thought he was doing David Cameron an enormous favour by hovering his tornado-sized charisma void over the Conservative campaign in 2010, but the scale of Barlow's tax avoidance has repeatedly come along to kick Cameron in the arse in the years since then.
Except there is a ghost hovering over this canoni sation ceremony.
Walking into the theatre, I passed two elderly American tourists hovering indecisively by the box office.
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