Sentence examples for hovering about from inspiring English sources

With all these literary revenants hovering about, "The Ghost Writer" manages to evoke, as not enough contemporary horror does, both the confident past and the more anguished present of the genre, and even to suggest, slyly, that although the illustrious tradition of the genteel British ghost story remains with us, we need to be very, very careful about disturbing its rest.

Not the rest of the curious crowd hovering about.

An ironic, intelligent smile is hovering about his lips.

Inflation is still hovering about 10%, while real interest rates are negative.

By the time they stopped pumping, it was hovering about a foot above the piers.

Three Italian cruisers are reported to have been seen by Greek sponge-fishing boats hovering about the Tripoli coast.

As the waiters hover about, she comes across as smart and polished.

A few neighbors hover about, cowering with her and the children in a basement when the bombs fall too close, but otherwise she's alone.

We arrived at the house of some cousins, two twins, small men now in their 50s, one with a mustache and one without, who live with their mother, whom they tend to hover about protectively.

Nuns from Mother Teresa's order hovered about.

He told researchers that he "hovered" about his business.