"hover" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

hover verbo

verbo + hover
Kolokacji: 3
seem to hover • seen hovering • keep hovering
hover + preposición
Kolokacji: 33
hover over • hover around • hover above • hover at • hover near • ...
hover + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 37
hover nearby • hover somewhere • hover anxiously • hover overhead • hover uncertainly • ...
1. hover anxiously = wiś w powietrzu z niepokojem hover anxiously
2. hover nervously = wiś w powietrzu nerwowo hover nervously
3. hover uneasily = wiś w powietrzu z trudem hover uneasily
  • The eucharistic theology of the new Elizabethan church also hovered uneasily between the Lutheran and Reformed positions.
  • I was hovering uneasily on the verge of sleep, when my ears picked up an ominous creaking of floorboards in the hall outside.
  • Cabell's story has the force of verisimilitude, although it hovers uneasily between literary narrative and historiography.
  • Elizabeth the waitress had followed John and Angie into the bedroom and had been hovering uneasily in the background.
  • Hovering uneasily in the background of the book is the question: Is this level of barbarity unique to Africa?
  • He was aware suddenly of the old butler hovering uneasily near him.
  • Three of the four dances on Mr. Dzul's program offered no revelations and hovered uneasily between ritual and theatrical dance.
  • But "A Black Burlesque" sometimes hovers uneasily between theater and replication of life.
  • My hand hovered uneasily over the bottles in my chest, but I had no remedy for this.
  • Leon Spaulding hovered uneasily to one side.
4. hover quietly = wiś w powietrzu cicho hover quietly
(4) uncertainly, impatiently
Kolokacji: 2
(5) high, low
Kolokacji: 2
(6) menacingly, ominously
Kolokacji: 2
(7) solicitously, attentively
Kolokacji: 2
(8) right, simply
Kolokacji: 2

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