The word "hovers" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "hovers" to indicate something that is floating in the air or remaining in one position without moving. For example: "The dragonfly hovered in midair, its wings barely moving."
A glowing green disc hovers high in the sky at night, casting an eerie glow over a forest of minarets, cranes and concrete frames that seem to stretch endlessly into the dusty distance, like a vast field of dominoes.
At the other, a structure, clearly inspired (I use the word loosely) by the Parthenon hovers a storey or so above the ground.
Outside, in the garden, an immaculately presented woman (Annette Bening) hovers over a rosebed.
In summer, giant yellow laburnum and flame trees filter the morning sun, while in winter, gauzy mist hovers over the bright green lake.
Jamie, the multi-millionaire, hovers, trying to think of something to say.
While Labour's lead is comfortable, its score will disappoint party strategists who would have hoped it would be pushing well above 40% as the economy hovers close to a triple-dip recession.
Colin McPhee's score Tabuh-Tabuhan transplants transplants south-east Asian music to Asiantern orchestra, creating a sound world that hovers between gamusic and 20to-century dissonance.
Dressing in order to be taken seriously indicates that the spectre of older, more explicit forms of sexism still hovers over us: a woman who adopts a more feminine style is too preoccupied with pretty things to be a serious academic, because a woman can't be both attractive and intelligent – if indeed she can be intelligent at all.
On Digital Lion, its title framing Blake as a kind of neo-calypso crooner, there's a similar blare that again hovers between organic brass and dancehall foghorn.
At these moments, a touch of the surreal hovers a foot above the real.
The Republic of Ireland hovers closer to bankruptcy than any of us should wish.
