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How to use hove in a sentence

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Once he hove into view at our table, the lights went out and I had to order in the dark.
Fortunately for us, an offshore sailing dinghy race hove into view, half a dozen racing dinghies screaming downwind.
On 18 May 1565 130 galleys and 50 transports carrying 30,000 troops hove in sight of what is now Valetta.
When a sloop is hove to she is stopped in the water by her foresail being sheeted aback, on the windward side.
In the afternoon we hove to and tried to get the boat still enough for Ken to shoot the sun with a sextant.
Suddenly it hove back into view, coming straight at us, diving madly like a German Stuka on a bombing run.
The ship was hove to and the men in charge of patching were swung over in rope slings.
The chamber pot was shrouded in fog when I began to look for it, and then, as the wind blew stronger, it hove into view.
An idyllic spot of woodland might hove into view, but tantalisingly only as a remote island in an ocean of ploughed fields.
Sure enough, several miles later a small isolated mound hove into view with a scrubby acacia tree perched on top.
Familiar faces hove into view and the barman greets me by name even though I've not been here for eight months.
After several minutes, he heard the watchman approach, mumbling a song under his breath, then hove into view, his lantern preceding him.
Somebody was keeping count, and great cheers went up every time our heroine hove into view.
So far the neighbours have not actually complained but they have been seen to dive for cover when the verbose trio hove into view.
Meanwhile, two civilian packers and their laggardly pack mules loaded with howitzer ammunition hove into sight from the south, hurrying to reach the command.
A few minutes later, the river ford hove into sight, and desultory fire from the enemy began to interrupt the quiet of the dawn like toy cap guns.
His top-heavy starlets grunted and hove in aerobicized ecstasy.
Soon the shining titanium flanks of the museum hove into view.
As his arrival date hove into view, I assembled a labour soundtrack.
Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.
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So the Pyrenees, with her cargo of fire, was hove to, bitting the teeth of the gale and fighting and smashing the pounding seas.
Sim had stooped to pick up the quarter the Prince of Wales had hove at him.
For two days, with nothing to eat and the valetta hove to, they remained below.
Experientia docet that the rater, though she can lay to, cannot be hove to and have her way stopped.
We carved off a supply from both, and saved the skins, and hove the rest overboard.
When a passenger of the foot hove in sight, tootle the horn trumpet to him melodiously at first.
At this juncture a man with a small boat hove in sight and came so close that Mr. crouse could touch it.
On the 20th, the grand mountains of St. Helena hove in sight, and the majestic bay of Samana opened before them.
Next you hove in sight, and held a pow-wow with the tonsorial artist who insisted upon talking shop after hours.
I don't want no more stone-ballast hove at us 'long o' your calm' Miquelon boats 'footy cochins,' same's you did off Le Have.
If the ends by which the wall knot is made after being hove were passed through the bights, it would make the knot stronger.
When the sunspot reached the center of the lake, the boys hove to, stripped down to their trunks, and dived overboard.
The anchor is apeek when the cable has been sufficiently hove in to bring the ship over it.
A grapnel was hove on to the rocks, and there she lay as snug as any on board could desire.
Her anchor was atrip, that is, the cable was hove short, showing that she was ready to sail at a moment's notice.
We now hove clear of the bank, restowed the cargo, and made sail for Batavia.
But that night, when Josh come home, he hove 'em all out into the back yard, an' the biddies eat 'em up.
The next day, to our great satisfaction, the opossum hove in sight.
Marian had not yet had time to change her page's attire, when the three escorts of the knight hove in sight.
He will be rather impatient to get back to his champagne, from which he ran away in such a hurry, when the convict with the gun hove in sight.
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