overhang
verb (used with object)
to hang or be suspended over.
were 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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The role included checking on the health of trees, whether they needed pruning or were overhanging and responding to any resident's concern.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2022
At the top of the range, facing the east, were overhanging ledges of rock, and under these the dung was two feet or more deep.
From American Big Game in Its Haunts by Various
The second and third glaciers were overhanging masses about a half-mile wide, which gave volume in summer time to Greely River.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook
On one side of the ground where moss and creeping crowfoot grew, there were overhanging rocks which formed a small cave not much deeper than a man's height.
From The Princess Pocahontas by George Wharton Edwards
The same features continually repeated themselves as we advanced; large broken cliffs were overhanging us, and birds singing in the solitude; it need not be added that the sun was cloudless the whole day long.
From Byeways in Palestine by James Finn
