verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
above
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A clothes-line hangs between two high windows, hovering above like a tawdry hammock from the sky.
around
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Temperatures will hover around eight to ten degrees celsius, thats forty six to fifty fahrenheit with only a moderate breeze.
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True, synagogue membership and religious school enrollment both hover around 50 percent.
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Then wasps; a cloud of them hovered around my Virginia creeper where I suspected they had a nest.
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Apple stock continued to slip Thursday, hovering around 28 per share.
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Community satisfaction and attachment was found to be relatively low, hovering around 50 percent.
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The mercury hovered around ninety, and so did the humidity.
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Patrick hovered around the door for a few moments and then finally decided to brazen it out.
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However, since the early 1950s government spending for goods and services has hovered around 20 percent of the national output.
just
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The needle was hovering just over the red.
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Occasionally the chords flow together; a melody seems to be hovering just on the edge.
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But groups like Hilton and Sheraton were just hovering outside of the list, both with over 1,000 rooms in the United Kingdom.
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Often as not, our chairman just hovered quietly for a bit, then left.
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One Hunter was hovering just above the castle.
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A ground fog hovered just over the lawns of the neighborhood.
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The temperature hovered just above freezing, and a brisk wind turned the rain into slanting sheets of icy daggers.
over
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Rhoda took to table-tapping and seances and reported seeing the ghost of Wendy hovering over her bed at night.
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We hovered over to a fuel bladder at one end of the field to refuel.
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That was how she felt - as though those dear supporting figures of her childhood were once again hovering over her.
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The story ends at a funeral, hovered over by a surreal balloon, from which hangs a fancied female acrobat.
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Swarms of flies and mosquitoes hover over the marshes.
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In fact, the only bird of prey I ever saw hovering over the park was a kestrel.
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The weight hovered over her shoulders, ready to settle.
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Soon after, he checked out in Vegas, the suspicion of murder hovering over the coroner's report.
still
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The nurse was still hovering about the bed, patting the pillow, tucking in blankets and generally fussing over her patient.
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The average quoted turnover rate still hovers at 10 percent in spite of worker bonuses, free healthcare and rides to work.
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But as normality resumes, a strange myth still hovers around the popular uprising that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic.
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The Opel was still hovering at the kerbside, lights glaring, waiting to pounce.
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Then, as she watched him, still hovering indecisively, she felt an odd compassion stir her heart.
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A smile still hovering round her mouth, she glanced up and through the mirror.
■ NOUN
air
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Hovering close to the ground Let's go back to the situation where the model is hovering in calm air .
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I saw the helicopter hover in the air , and then it crashed into our guest house.
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A light rain hovers in the air .
background
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When they returned to the house Silas and Peter Bush walked from room to room with Lucy hovering in the background .
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Tutilo hovered in the background , keeping himself modestly apart while his betters conferred.
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Across the room Linda was repeating her apologies, Oliver hovering in the background .
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She felt twitchy about that vile Angel who hovered shadowy in the background , waiting to perform some dreadful mischief.
cloud
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At the edge of the plain a new dust cloud hovered .
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He had been staring up at the deep purple blanket with tiny freckles of stars and wisps of cloud hovering .
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Then wasps; a cloud of them hovered around my Virginia creeper where I suspected they had a nest.
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There was a great black cloud hovering over her head.
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It's like a dark cloud continually hovering over us.
edge
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One could dissolve and still exist ... I hovered on the edge of consciousness, semi-asleep, making nonsense.
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Occasionally the chords flow together; a melody seems to be hovering just on the edge .
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Inside the briefing room of the Royaume Uni we hovered on the edge of Dunkirk as usual.
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While Cookie hovers on the edge of death, Spoon is obliged to fill out an endless, baffling questionnaire.
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Balfour hovered on the edge of the plot.
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He was irritated, the chief inspector decided, by her obstinacy, and hovered on the edge of asking her again.
hand
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Norman's hand hovered over the padlock.
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Her hand hovered over the phone, then pulled away.
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His cheeks glistened with tears and his hand hovered over the head of the thing he had called his son.
helicopter
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The helicopters hovered overhead in formation.
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I saw the helicopter hover in the air, and then it crashed into our guest house.
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A giant helicopter was hovering overhead, its spotlight trained on the field below.
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Each night as they lay in bed, they could hear army helicopters hovering over the parish.
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With the helicopter hovering overhead, he drove for the peak of the leading wave, but then backed off.
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Small patrol helicopters hovered over the treetops beyond the barbed wire.
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He has been pictured in a Tarzan suit with a helicopter hovering over his head.
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Police helicopters hovered and riot police were posted around the square and nearby side streets.
percent
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Community satisfaction and attachment was found to be relatively low, hovering around 50 percent .
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True, synagogue membership and religious school enrollment both hover around 50 percent .
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However, since the early 1950s government spending for goods and services has hovered around 20 percent of the national output.
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Today, the rate hovers around 10 percent , the lowest level since the 1950s.
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The average quoted turnover rate still hovers at 10 percent in spite of worker bonuses, free healthcare and rides to work.
temperature
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Not as cool but not as far as Flagstaff, the mile-high city boasts temperatures that hover in the low 90s.
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The temperature hovered just above freezing, and a brisk wind turned the rain into slanting sheets of icy daggers.
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Chilly mornings stretched into hellish afternoons as temperatures hovered around 100 degrees.
■ VERB
seem
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Peter Lorre seemed almost to be hovering at Jack's elbow.
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Occasionally the chords flow together; a melody seems to be hovering just on the edge.
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Ever since Christmas, the thought of the amethyst brooch seemed to hover in his thoughts.
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Just at first he seemed able to hover on the up draft, like a dry leaf.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A clothes-line hangs between two high windows, hovering above like a tawdry hammock from the sky.
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But groups like Hilton and Sheraton were just hovering outside of the list, both with over 1,000 rooms in the United Kingdom.
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Community satisfaction and attachment was found to be relatively low, hovering around 50 percent.
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Perseus on his winged sandals hovered above them, looking, however, only at the shield.
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She wanders the stage, mike in hand like Betty Carter, often hovering over one of her accompanists, particularly Terrasson.
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True, synagogue membership and religious school enrollment both hover around 50 percent.
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With Watchbirds hovering everywhere, my confidence falters, my work loses momentum.