overhang
verb (used with object)
to hang or be suspended over.
has overhung
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present perfectof overhang (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Believe not he has overhung it with dark clouds, and made it barren of fruit and beauty.
From Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness by John Mather Austin
Generation has followed in the footsteps of generation, but with no rift in the gloomy shadow of death that has overhung and finally settled over each.
From Old Groans and New Songs Being Meditations on the Book of Ecclesiastes by Frederick Charles Jennings
The sun shone before it set; and the mist, which all day has overhung the land, now takes the aspect of a cloud,—drawing a thin veil between us and the shore, and rising above it.
From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne
