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Sentence Examples The only reason I can think of for using a short ledgering rod is if overhanging trees are troublesome. Move slowly, especially through overhanging vegetation and brush, to avoid disturbing nests and hives. On May 30, 1956, he slammed a pitch that struck the facade overhanging the right field seats. This is the heartland of Bavarian tradition, full of slatted wooden houses with wide overhanging eaves and balconies cascading with geraniums. They have created box canyons and saguaro forests, dry riverbeds and sudden wildflowers, crystal-filled caves and overhanging scarps. Perched on an exposed bough overhanging the water, he gazes unwinkingly at the water below. The group recently organized a village clean up where 30 people worked on cleaning up briary overhanging trees. Ashore a spume of brine water rains from an overhanging crag and sluices back through the beach. Fortunately, in those days, roadside verges were clear of overhanging tree branches. At first its banks are lined with campion, vetch, roses, bulrushes and meadowsweet and later with poplar trees heavy with overhanging mistletoe. There was a vague light from a street light overhanging the rear of the house. Peering from the dark cavern created by the overhanging hull was a huge lobster, waving deep blue pincers at us as we filed respectfully past. Fluffy white layers drape the branches of maples and hemlocks overhanging the road and the frozen creek running beside it. There was a tall tree overhanging the road and once I climbed up with a basket of gravel and threw it on the bus. Tall palm trees with overhanging branches shaded the civilization here, aided by large boulders. To be most effective, the roof should be fully exposed and away from overhanging tree branches. In the provision of boundary fencing, some heavy, overhanging tree or hedge branches may need to be cut back, to allow sufficient access. There is nothing worse for them than overhanging trees as there is no way they can get out of the way of them. Under the cloak of darkness, they can slip into a cocoon of overhanging foliage. Its features include floors raised off the ground and steeply pitched roofs with deep overhanging eaves. Show More Sentences The birds flitted and the sunlight filtered through the overhanging branches. Moments later I was kicking my way up and over the slightly overhanging cornice on to the plateau above. Bony erosion occurs in chronic cases and tends to be periarticular, well corticated and have a thin overhanging edge. Finish by folding the overhanging pasta on top and level terrine with an additional layer of pasta. I painted all day out in the wood, producing a series of canvases of the old crack willows overhanging the stream. The atrium style entrance halls are overlooked by an overhanging gallery on the first floor. To accomplish this smoothly, place a straight edge down the slope of the roof overhanging the eave. Flying above all this are the wide overhanging eaves of the low slope timber roofs. Before man provided shelter in the shape of overhanging eaves, martins were cliff and cave dwellers. Inhabiting thick, wooded country and arid, shrubby areas, jaguars often make their dens in caves, or under overhanging rocks. The willows overhanging it discard huge branches which should have been pruned back years ago. For traffic driving east, the road descends down a gradient of 0.023 through a wooded area with trees overhanging the road on both sides. They walked through the shadow of the gorge, the steep overhanging walls closed in on them, and there was a sense of impending evil about them. Soft corals and gorgonians reach out from the overhanging sides, while shoals of fish swirl in the shade. But now it's a pleasant place, great for walking my dog or sitting on a bench listening to the breeze rustle the overhanging trees. She turned and disappeared into the gap between two wattle and daub buildings, their second stories overhanging the alley. Next to it is a timber building overhanging the lake, a fish restaurant and a jetty for fishing and boarding ferries. You should never use the karabiner brake for perpendicular or overhanging pitches. The building features window keystones, coloured tiles, and heavy overhanging cornices. In attempting unsuccessfully to couple with the labellum the male pushes its head forward below the overhanging column. Show More Sentences Even without the wreck it would be a good dive, as there is plenty of colourful marine life beneath overhanging ledges. As the van was speeding down the street, lamps overhanging above us flashed by quickly. Balconies, shutters, overhanging tile roofs, and wood detailing all add richness and variety. A few lucky crows have nests under the overhanging rocks and nearby was a limekiln with orchids. He hung the bundle from an overhanging branch of a sycamore, where it dangled lazily at head height above the ground. Big branches and branches only on the side of overhanging wires are lopped off, leaving the tree unbalanced. Trim up overhanging foliage from surrounding plants and simultaneously cut back any stray grass runners before they take root in adjacent beds. Both buildings have low-pitched roofs and overhanging eaves supported by brackets that are typical of the style. All had a big hearth in the kitchen with an overhanging chimney used to smoke hams and sausage as well as to cook and heat. He reasoned that the water and spray had scoured away the soft shale, leaving the overhanging ledge of hard limestone. Besides cutting back overhanging trees on a three-mile stretch of path, volunteers also laid grass seed and collected debris. On the south side, the building steps back as it rises, so that the overhanging floor-plates provide natural shading for the offices beneath. The side of the quarry is sheer, overhanging in places and a just off-vertical slope in others. Later, he tries another, trickier approach, via an overhanging shelf of rock and ice. This is best learned on an overhanging traverse, or at least, that's how I learned it. The second involves the joining of DNA ends through the pairing of short complementary sequences, as happens with complementary overhanging DNA ends produced by endonucleases. There's a series of perfectly overhanging trees, some of which are partly submerged creating some enticing looking weed rafts and the bank would appear to be undercut too. Eventually, at a junction with a road, cross over and, on the other side of an island in a car park, follow a track with trees overhanging it on both sides. The bus had just done a three-point turn but as it drove back down the road the branches of an overhanging tree hit its roof and smashed several windows. A Rosehill couple plagued by trees overhanging their back garden for the last three decades are seeking legal advice and starting a petition in a bid to resolve the problem. Show More Sentences It's a good time to go exploring the maze of narrow alleys, spying the old Arabian houses with overhanging balconies and brass-studded, elaborately carved teak doors. The splayed overhanging eastern wall of the bedroom above concatenates this diagonal tension, while the raised living area closes and holds the space back. Further down the river some trees were overhanging the water. Beyond the entrance to the hotel was an arcade that ran the length of the street, canopied by the overhanging facades of a row of ancient buildings. For many modern rock jocks, the Cobbler's steep and overhanging faces continue to provide testing challenges as they search for ever-harder lines. We paddled right under the canopy of trees overhanging the banks and got close encounters with egrets, herons, storks and some brilliant kingfishers. The compact, boxy design was very forward looking in its day and is still very striking now, with its dramatic overhanging bonnet and cute round tail-lights. He urged people to cut back overhanging trees and hedges, avoid parking on the pavement, and think carefully about the positioning of wheelie bins. In the hot, humid conditions of the Asian tropics, buildings are traditionally elevated above ground, with overhanging eaves and thin permeable walls to encourage ventilation. At this time of year, insurers advise checking roofs for loose tiles and guttering, as well as making sure any overhanging trees are in a healthy condition. The pens that once held thousands of pigs are empty now, but still there are the large, overhanging mango and jackfruit trees that attract the bats. We would select a vine well attached to a large tree overhanging a gully. There, a series of thin moves leads you up the remainder of the corner, then you end up facing a traverse to the right under a huge, overhanging roof. Suddenly a 400-metre length of serac, a huge overhanging ledge of ice, broke loose and fell to the bottom of the North Face. Hawkshead has a timeless atmosphere and consists of a characterful warren of alleys, overhanging gables and a series of mediaeval squares. Water-hugging hotel, located on the end of the wharf and overhanging the harbour, has 280-degree views. When hunting aquatic prey, such as ducks or nutrias, the wildcat waits on trees overhanging the water. As half in the deep window embrazure, Lennon paused to watch her, the overhanging cliff ledges reverberated with an impatient call. Whales have an elongated head, especially baleen whales, due to the wide overhanging jaw. In 1661, Charles II issued a proclamation forbidding overhanging windows and jetties, but this was largely ignored by the local government. Show More Sentences It frequents scrubs and bushes with overhanging branches close to shallow open water in which it hunts. Hazards in high water conditions can include floating trees, collapsing portions of river bank, overhanging branches and even dead farm animals. I also made a shish kabob of sorts by skewering hamburger buns soaked in anise extract on an overhanging limb, hoping it would carry the food scent farther into the woods. Erethizon characteristically takes shelter in rock piles, beneath overhanging rocks, or in hollow logs but does not dig burrows as do Old World porcupines. When building dens, females make use of natural shelters such as fissures in rocks, cliffs overhanging riverbanks and holes thickly covered by vegetation. The thick branches overhanging the path made progress difficult. A young barred owl sitting in a tree above the Wakulla River stared down at me as I eased my kayak under an overhanging tree limb which made a shadow on a deep water pocket. These weights are used as a balance for the overhanging verandah. Examples from Classical Literature They perch on some limb overhanging the water and watchfully wait for their dinner. Several times he climbed the only climbable place on the overhanging rock and peeped between the branches of a dwarfed cedar bush. A paunchy boss with underset jaw and overhanging upper lip was profanely urging his helpers back to their jobs. Some of these have overhanging upper stories to them, are half-timbered or yellow-washed. It is an uninteresting collection of stone huts, with many pretty little fields, and maidenhair fern overhanging the wayside. The lateral iliac fossa is the concavity below the overhanging lateral iliac process. I saw only the lower end of our balloon, which was overhanging its base, all loose and baggy. After passing the rectory of St. Marys, our road lay through copses, whose overhanging boughs formed a beautiful and verdant arch. It would help if residents kept the footways free from obstructions by cutting back overhanging hedges and trees from their property. A may bush, overhanging a little precipice of chalk, caught her eye. A solitary angler stood casting his fly at a turn in the stream where the backwater lay still and deep under an overhanging bank. For every night she refashions her hair In the light of an overhanging lamp, And with a toss of her phantom head Ignores the rising damp of time. They began to deploy into the woods overhanging Choke Gulch. But to reach the mighty cliffs overhanging the scraw was not an easy task. Thus equipped he went to his rest where the pigs were camping under an overhanging rock that gave them shelter from the North wind. The vast canopy of woods spread itself to the margin of the river, overhanging the water, and shadowing its dark current with a deeper hue. She too had got possession of an oar, and had pushed off, so as to release the boat from the overhanging window-frame. An elderly woman mistakenly drove across the club's putting green before abandoning her car overhanging a wall. The fluviatile trees next the shore are the slender eyelashes which fringe it, and the wooded hills and cliffs around are its overhanging brows. Outside of this, again, may be an abri or shelter of overhanging rock. Show More Sentences This is also surmounted by an overhanging cap and a molding. Anna Hansen shook the reins and they drove on, while I zigzagged back to my inlet and clambered up behind an overhanging elm. She sat in the quiet doorway, shaded from the little Riverboro world by the overhanging elms. The three went on, and Young Jerry went on, until the three stopped under a bank overhanging the road. A DELIGHTFUL duck pond with overhanging silver birches is part of the wonderfully landscaped gardens around Linkster House just two miles west of Laurencekirk. They smoked their own names under an overhanging shelf and moved on. Lastly the river appeared, still holding the mists between its banks and its overhanging alders, and only visible as far as a hill, which cut off its upper reaches. I had passed through a narrow, overhanging gorge just before entering suddenly upon this table land, and the sight which met my eyes filled me with consternation and dismay. Find more words! 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