Adjective : an overhung door. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : A great chandelier overhung the ballroom. ,A wide balcony overhangs the garden. ,The threat of war overhung Europe. ,the melancholy that overhung the proceedings. ,Unemployment continues to overhang the economic recovery. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : How far does the balcony overhang?. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : an overhang of office space in midtown. ,to face the overhang of foreign reprisals. From Dictionary.com.
He’s been what he calls overhung all day, which means he had a drop too much last night. From Wordnik.com. [Cargo of Eagles]
He had no eyes for the splendor that overhung him. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
It overhung the very steepest drop of the eminence. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
The cave's mouth overhung with lianas and broad-leafed hothouse plants. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 40: Crusin'] Reference
I generally noticed, that, where the bushes overhung the water and made. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
I stepped out upon the balcony that overhung the court and I looked over. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
The trees overhung the brook from both sides, making it pitch dark beneath. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma] Reference
What it likes is a still, rushy pool, or some sluggish brook overhung with vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
I saw a face pale, overhung with dishevelled hair, and filled with an anguish of fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
This old stone building overhung the river, and stood at the eastern end of the bridge. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
Up and out they swept, out into the intense blackness which overhung the sea behind us. From Wordnik.com. [The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette] Reference
Their appearance transformed the gloom that overhung Camp Spurling into the wildest joy. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
This was where two roads merged into one, at the bottom of a steep hill overhung with trees. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
The bridge was a few yards below the last house in the village, and some mist overhung the river. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
The banks are dark and overhung by Himalayan balsam, elder and low branches of beech and sycamore. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: North Derbyshire] Reference
In a little cove edged with laurel bushes and overhung with chestnut trees and tall oaks it sent up. From Wordnik.com. [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference
Trees overhung the streams, shading them from the hot sun, so that they did not dry up in the summer. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Edie guided him along a deep ravine till they came to a precipice of rock overhung with brushwood and copse. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
I walk toward the beach, past the centuries-old oak that has overhung my family's cemetery lot for generations. From Wordnik.com. [OUT OF THE RUBBLE... CONDOS AND SLOTS?] Reference
A light breeze was beginning to blow from the southwest, dispersing the thin silver mist that overhung the water. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The winding road along the water -- the precursor to Highway 90 -- was a ribbon of oyster shells, overhung with oaks. From Wordnik.com. [OUT OF THE RUBBLE... CONDOS AND SLOTS?] Reference
The Dee, a rapid stream, winds through the green valley in a thousand fantastic bendings, overhung with thick underwood. From Wordnik.com. [The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"] Reference
When within half a dozen yards he stopped and took good stock of me, with brown eyes overhung by thick grizzled eyebrows. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
The rooms on the ground floor, overhung by a colonnade, were in single file with an ell on the north front at the west end. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
It happened that a whole family of Eskimo children ran shouting and laughing along the top of a cliff which overhung the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Birds] Reference
Even if it were a hoax it would occupy his mind for a time, and take his thoughts away from the sinister shadow that overhung him. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
I was passing up the Dame's Pad, as it was called, a little turfed road, overhung by walnut trees brought by the old Earl from England. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
A dishpanful of dough, which had risen till it overhung the edges of the pan, indicated that it was high time to knead a batch of bread. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
Attached to the branches of these trees, which overhung the water and drooped into it at high tide, were abundance of fair-sized oysters. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
And there, near a field of cattle, like Paul Potter painted, under a sky worthy of Raphael, in a cove overhung with trees like a picture by. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
His face, surrounded by a bristly dark brown beard, and his eyes overhung by bushy eyebrows, gave him, at the first glance, a harsh appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
As the darkness increased, it threw a ruddier glow upon all the scene around, lighting up field and hill, and sending long streams of radiance into the fog that overhung the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
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