Example Sentences

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No, she replied, describing instead how they “went crazy on the whiteboard” while Gates’s staff hovered outside the door.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

Prices have hovered around the $95 mark in the past week as traders weigh the conflict's long-term impact on global energy flows.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

The operation, at the vacant St. Luke Medical Center in the 2600 block of East Washington Boulevard, included simulated gunfire, flash grenades and a military helicopter that hovered over the building.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

The SPR has a storage capacity of 714 million barrels, and it last hovered close to that level in the 2010s.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

Colin hovered outside the room awkwardly, and Ophie yawned, her jaw fairly cracking with the strength of it.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland