overhanging
Example Sentences
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A dog has been rescued after falling through an overhanging ledge of snow and spending a wintry night out on a mountain in the Highlands.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
Their staple diet are deer, and they hunt by stealth often pouncing from trees or overhanging rocks.
From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026
But the canal authorities don’t allow overhanging cargo that could hit infrastructure such as light poles at the waterway’s locks.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
That was the central question overhanging CinemaCon 2024, the annual convention bringing together Hollywood studios and multiplex operators in Las Vegas this week.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024
The Soviets had been caught unprepared by Hitler in World War II. “Like twenty years ago,” the statement continued, “ominous clouds of war are once again overhanging the approaches to our motherland.”
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
