overhanging

Example Sentences

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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

The goats have also attacked the neighbors and climbed on top of their car in a shared driveway to eat the leaves off an overhanging tree, Paszterko wrote in his Aug. 7 filing.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2024

The cave has a skylight on the Moon’s surface, leading down to vertical and overhanging walls, and a sloping floor that might extend further underground.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2024

In that instant, a hideous head struck out of the overhanging straw—those unblinking eyes, those fatal fangs.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck