overhung
Americanverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of overhung
Example Sentences
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It’s round so it can turn in place without running into another object, and flat so it can clean floors overhung by kitchen cabinets.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2025
Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.
From Scientific American • Apr. 1, 2022
Inside, fruit trees overhung a small, warm pool; saddles and bridles stored nearby gave the humid room a pleasantly horsy smell.
From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2021
“From here, it only gets better,” Miller said, looking upstream at the sparkling river, overhung with a deep forest.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2020
Anyway, on the Maple River I drew into a little copse, of sycamores I think, that overhung the stream, and paused to lick my mythological wounds.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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