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 Clotel; or, the President's Daughter 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
But that gentleman’s face revealed no emotion, except a sort of sullen wrath which had overhung it ever since his appearance in the witness-box.
From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward
As the days went by the sense of failure, which had overhung everything Gordon had done the term before, returned with an increased poignancy.
From The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh
