(v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something.
(v. i.) To hang about; to move to and fro near a place, threateningly, watchfully, or irresolutely.
Example Sentences:
(1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(2) Greece's desperate plight hovers over the meeting, although formally there is no mention of Greece on the agenda or in the statements drafted for the meeting.
(3) So it was that Mané broke along the right and turned over a dangerous ball that needed Matteo Darmian’s intervention as Shane Long hovered.
(4) I was sitting in the room, reading all the negativity and death threats, and by now the helium balloons were half-full, hovering like jellyfish.
(5) Even if everyone in the world limited their fish consumption to once a week (I don’t eat other kinds of meat), the oceans would still be hovering on depletion.
(6) Military helicopters hovered overhead as supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed in the streets below.
(7) Horses grazing singly or in groups were aggressively defended by hovering males.
(8) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(9) In his dreamlike view of the world, bits of buildings are liberated to take on their own lives and attempt unexpected feats: floors can shift and windows can hover – and now, it seems, planes can spurt out shimmering aluminium vapour trails.
(10) They all hover around a standard Australian size 8-10, and all have a similar svelte, leggy look.
(11) Bill Clinton hovering just off screen in latest batch of Hillary Clinton emails Read more Platte River took over the device in June 2013, about four months after Clinton left the State Department, and turned it over to the FBI last month, the newspaper reported.
(12) Its growth has slowed in recent days and its size now hovers around 241,000 hectares.
(13) · In the early 1990s, television news programmes featured clips of advanced TM practitioners, known as yogic flyers, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position.
(14) Simmons was struck by the cravat, but also by a third man hovering in the doorway during viewings.
(15) The remark evoked a defensive response from those wedded to the ephemeral virtues of the "confidence fairy" – and who are concerned to keep her benevolent figure hovering above Britain's severely weakened economy.
(16) The potential for a trade war is hovering in the background as Congress and the Republicans agitate over what they regard as underhand tactics by Beijing.
(17) With it would come “the Mother of Planes, which would hover over space for up to a year and then swoop down to rescue righteous black Muslims from the great white wasteland”.
(18) A much bigger role for the market is not a recipe for a bigger or stronger society, because in practice businesses – especially the big US corporations that are hovering over the NHS – are accountable to no one but their shareholders and much more interested in their financial bottom line than social justice or equality.
(19) This turn may be hampered by drag on the abdomen during fast forward flight and would be most useful at low speeds or during hovering.
(20) Sarkozy, who is hovering in the wings threatening a political comeback, said as much last week.
Kestrel
Definition:
(n.) A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cell-adapted virus produced a distinct rounding of CEF cells within 24 to 48 h. Biologic and serologic tests suggested that the kestrel virus is similar to falcon herpesvirus and pigeon herpesvirus and is at least partially related to owl herpesvirus.
(2) In contrast, DDE and dieldrin accumulated in the tissues and brains of kestrels to toxicologically significant concentrations.
(3) The results of light and electron microscopic studies and experimental transmission to a captive American kestrel and a barred owl (Strix varia) suggests a herpesvirus similar to those dsecribed for owls and other falcons in the U.S.
(4) Additionally membrane elevations and depressions and globular elements were found on these central fibers in three species, the kestrel being the exception.
(5) Parasitemia and body weight of female kestrels were negatively correlated.
(6) It in turn subcontracted the supply of some equipment to a third company, Dorset company Kestrel Ophthalmics .
(7) All on benefits with lots of kids, eating chips and gravy and training up kestrels to pass the time.
(8) Pine voles (Microtus pinetorum) were collected from pesticide-treated orchards in New York (USA) and fed to three captive American kestrels (Falco sparverius) for 60 days to evaluate potential hazards from soil-borne persistent insecticides.
(9) In the course of post-mortem bacteriological examinations, several previously unreported bacterial strains were isolated from budgerigars, pigeons, kestrels, and a goose.
(10) Laurence Vick, a medical negligence lawyer who is working with some of the victims, said he was “very surprised” that Kestrel, as a party to the arrangement, had not received the report.
(11) Brain and body temperatures were measured via small thermocouples implanted in the anterior hypothalami and colons, respectively, of five adult American kestrels (F. sparverius, mean mass 119 g) during descending flights in a wind tunnel at angles of 4 and 6 degrees below horizontal, at 10 m.s-1 air speed, and at 23 degrees C air temperature.
(12) Brain cholinesterase (ChE) activity in kestrels was depressed to levels diagnostic of poisoning by a ChE-inhibiting compound.
(13) With fish in the pool, crabs on the edges, Canarian geckos scurrying between rocks, a wild ocean to stare out at, volcanic lava banks and the occasional kestrel above, the scenery is stunning.
(14) First, myopia is not always produced in kestrels in response to form deprivation.
(15) Kestrel simply confirmed it was commissioned by The Practice to supply equipment and materials.
(16) Photograph: firstVIEW When McQueen was a boy, he had liked to watch the kestrels who for many years returned each spring to nest on the top of the tower block opposite the kitchen window of his family home.
(17) Control kestrels remained healthy and accumulated insignificant concentrations of the contaminants.
(18) This is the first report of a naturally occurring case of inclusion body disease of falcons in the American kestrel.
(19) Lloyds Banking Group has begun a mass mailshot of 231,000 letters offering possible refunds to Halifax customers who may have been mis-sold payment protection insurance on their credit cards, under a costly and large-scale outreach programme codenamed Project Kestrel.
(20) A spokeswoman for Musgrove said it did not pass on the report to Kestrel because it did not have a contract with it.