overhang
verb (used with object)
to hang or be suspended over.
was overhanging
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past progressiveof overhang.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She slid her hand under his which was overhanging the division between the seats.
From Wee Macgreegor Enlists by J. J. (John Joy) Bell
How little he guessed the tragedy that was overhanging it all!
From The Red Rat's Daughter by Guy Boothby
So far as we could judge, the level of the lake had sunk to about 80 feet below the margin, and the lately formed precipice was overhanging it considerably.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
I happened to be looking up there, thinking it looked pretty dangerous, when a great mass of snow which was overhanging that little cliff up there near the saddle, fell and started the whole thing.
From The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado by Chase Emerson
All the upper part of him was overhanging and alarming, till you chanced on those diminutive features.
From Young Hilda at the Wars by Arthur Gleason
