overhang
verb (used with object)
to hang or be suspended over.
are overhanging
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present progressiveof overhang.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Ordinary considerations are overhanging trees and other obstructions - in Ukraine, users will have to consider safety and how they may appear to Russian forces.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2022
Concerns about the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus and whether vaccinations can contain it also are overhanging markets in Asia.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2021
On either side, high over our heads, there are overhanging granite walls, and the sharp bends cut off our view, so that a few minutes will carry us into unknown waters.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers by George Iles
Close by it and scattered frequently throughout the streets of the city are overhanging houses that betray their antiquity at a glance.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum by Gleeson White
The rock-shelters are overhanging rocks, under the projections of which man found a shelter and built his rude dwellings of boughs and sticks.
From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
