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
We walked to a fork in the path, a crossroads overhung with massive slabs of rock that seemed poised to crush us.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022
Carefully installed — thankfully not overhung — the handful of works here look almost like tapestries instead of paintings.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2015
Heather and trees and bracken scrambled down and overhung the banks, or sprawled out over the surface.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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