overhang
verb (used with object)
to hang or be suspended over.
had overhung
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past perfectof overhang.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Once or twice in descending the mountain Concho had overhung the cliff and looked down upon the curving horse-shoe of a bay below him,—distant yet many miles.
From The Story of a Mine by Bret Harte
While there, the clouds which had overhung the city for some hours, broke, and the rain fell in torrents amid the most terrific thunder and lightning.
From Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by William Wells Brown
That the celebrated American was in any way concerned in the menace which had overhung Sir Charles he was not prepared to believe.
From Fire-Tongue by Sax Rohmer
A great burden was lifted from the skipper's mind—that great shadow of the fear of death that had overhung him.
From The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
The rain showed signs of decreasing at breakfast-time, and there were some ragged fringes to be seen in the grey curtain of cloud that had overhung the dripping world.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Archibald Marshall
