overhang
verb (used with object)
to hang or be suspended over.
have overhung
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present perfectof overhang.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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They cut off the right wing, which would have overhung a nearby road, but the landing gear and original engines were all preserved.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2010
It is needless to tell you how I came to know what, perhaps, I had better never have known, but which must always have overhung me as a dark cloud charged with a blasting fate.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
A kind of fate seemed to have overhung them from the very beginning.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
The clouds, which have overhung his mind all the forenoon, roll away: and his mercurial spirit seizes any pleasure that the moment may afford.
From A Day with the Poet Burns by Anonymous
Some little clouds have overhung our horizon,—I trust they will soon pass away.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster
