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    Use "float" in a sentence

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    float


    floated


    floating


    floats


    1. back, a well proportioned man, with a smile that could cut chiffon in mid-air float


    2. for two mugs, a scraping of milk was added so that it could float in lumps on the


    3. Once she entered the area, the hardest thing to fathom was the sheer bulk of the assembly that was missing, she could float in the space


    4. he waited for grains of shadow to float between the bars of a small arrow-slit


    5. When her finger hit the console, the life-size schematic of limbless Master Chief Evelyn Horcheese was projected upwards to float perfectly vertical in the air over the console next to the meter-long model of Tipperary


    6. ’ He said as I float back into the kitchen to count plates … or something


    7. "Well it does have quite a few photosynthetic cells and can maintain its life in a passive float for years without prey


    8. Curled up in the middle of a bleak and hooded cell he waited for grains of shadow to float between the bars of a small arrow-slit window high above him


    9. to float free in the space


    10. A dozen piers float out into the river at least a thousand feet

    11. Afternoonday is good to just float in the water, here where it is populated few spheelunge survive


    12. So how could I, mere mortal that I am, resist? I was seized with an overwhelming need to float and drift


    13. Not caring which way is up, I just float about in space, utterly content


    14. as subtle thoughts that float up from the subconscious


    15. grasshoppers and fish float in the same way


    16. a sudden, the line went taught and his float was dragged under the


    17. long moments the entity allowed him to float back


    18. There was a garden float on one side that was stalled in a restoration process, a battered old barge on the other


    19. Nothing had been pruned in years and the garden float couldn’t be moved without doing some


    20. The Ziddics watched a cloud of Chaos Spores float by 4

    21. If that stream could float a log down to the Lhar, they could still lumberjack


    22. In here now they seemed to float only fifty miles or so above where Alan was supposed to be by now, a desolate patch of high ground on the upper slopes of a mountain


    23. The one-armed man managed to summon the remaining travelers to him, and together, standing shoulder to shoulder, they formed a line of swords and daggers while the dark demons, slowly and cautiously, came at them, seeming to float in the air as they came over the rotting bodies of their victims


    24. Otherwise, the only ways into the keep were to float or swim


    25. I stood awhile and saw the large male swan who had been up river gently float by


    26. The captain had the vessel of Gordon's Lamp here in his space today where the crew could float and work around it at will


    27. It is so fluffy that it could float on an ocean of water


    28. Simultaneously, I lit the candle, caused the water in the chalice to spin like a whirlpool, ca small bud to grow within the bowl, and made the feather float


    29. Perhaps he too could float the name among his comrades and see what came of it


    30. The Orb, who was relieved to have her old non-feline form back, tried to float through the metal walls

    31. She put out a pod, for want of an arm, but it seemed to float a millimetre from the surface of the material


    32. But “everything” was far from over, and rumors of ern began to float about the city


    33. steadying the float


    34. And this would be the float that, under normal circumstances, is securely anchored off the far shore of the lake


    35. a float that was designed to be used for recreation purposes, but is now being used for, well, recreation purposes


    36. The six “island girls” and Kelly then board the float and are given transportation to the shore


    37. The four girls in the water then return the float to its original mooring, drop both anchors overboard, wash off any tell-tail signs that a car has been there, and swim to shore


    38. They then float their way along this waterway


    39. The camels and other animals appeared to float over the rocks with no problem


    40. Whilst his cabin’s sofa looked very comfy, and most probably was in Earth gravity, all he could do was float against it in a most unsatisfying manner

    41. The others apparently had learned how to leave their body, float up and around – to escape the feeling of being crushed into the metal


    42. There were memories, which would float up, and only faint and indistinct as in a dream


    43. It seemed that a spiritual hand had thus emblazoned the heavens in omen of the flag so soon to float over that benighted land


    44. He moved quietly, almost seeming to float through the air without disturbing things around him


    45. A comfortable thick rubber type seat was installed in Casspirs which we also used as life jackets in water as it could float and keep the average constable above the water


    46. There are times in the evening when fog fills the valley and you seem to float on the cloud surface with a star show overhead; can you imagine?”


    47. which would float across the altar and then disappear


    48. Each float had on its back either live music or enormous speakers and trailing behind, hundreds danced to hip swaying Latin beats encouraged by young people in colorfully fringed costumes, shaking maracas to the beat


    49. However, in our group, Jim, his daughter Jaime, Ryan and I defied the unknown and jumped into the lumber float that was guided by long thick ropes attached to very large rocks


    50. We saw the cave that resembles the profile of the devil… and returned enduring once more the whipping punishment of the furious water, which seemed to last interminably… But what a feeling of satisfaction and delight when the lumber float was navigating away from the waterfall! This was a unique experience in life that cannot be lived in any other part of the world that I have the pleasure of knowing














































    1. toilet rolls should be, they skipped and floated on the very fabric of the universe


    2. Only a few pieces of alien deck plate floated past before the first of it hit the bow


    3. Horcheese floated over his shoulder, and he frowned


    4. Newspaper pages floated in front of me but the words were jumbled-up and ridiculous


    5. The projection of Tipperary floated almost a meter long over the console


    6. His limbs floated and splayed like a ragdoll


    7. His projection of the Chief’s torso now floated above the Ops console


    8. I floated in the black void, imagining not the sweet smile of my saviour but the sour breath of the angel of death


    9. He floated from one job to another, initially working as a reporter with a small, local newspaper in Jerusalem


    10. It floated like a boat with a thick turtle-hard, but smooth shell on top

    11. trailing the ribbons that floated once


    12. On the road down to the harbour with its lights and the village life, the faint strains of bouzouki floated through the air from a shop nearby


    13. The tender sounds floated away to silence, fading in the air beneath a sky full of jewellery that danced before my eyes between the open shutters


    14. I floated in the comfort of this smooth, luminous primeval liquid, looking at the patterns and the shifting net of sunlight underneath, and the sand way down below, ecstatic in the thrill of being aware of simple existence in a universe without change


    15. He floated out into space and looked carefully around


    16. They watched as the large force floated closer and closer


    17. His breath floated in front of him as he watched the sunrise


    18. He tried to center himself and relax; as he calmed down he floated back to the landing


    19. He had no legs, but floated


    20. He watched as it floated, unseen, out of the

    21. The rains marched through as if they were iron instead of water, and when in an hour or two the wind abated enough for me to look around, my wagon had floated off, the horse had bolted, and I was knee deep in a stream of runoff where my tent had been


    22. left the paper and floated in mid-air


    23. It had washed him clean; his guilt floated away in the


    24. The black shadows of birds floated on the wind miles away


    25. Palladio’s church of San Giorgio floated serenely above the


    26. As their voices floated


    27. and Roman floated off the bridge


    28. After no success it floated back up to bridge


    29. That canal was where the products of the Hyadrain Valley's heavy industry were floated out to the great canal called Fourth Harbor


    30. There were others in the river that floated down without oars

    31. They floated carefree, hoping they would get somewhere, but


    32. His chair slid back into place, catching him as he floated downward and saving him just moments before he would have crashed to the floor


    33. The smallest child, whose name was simply Bell, floated forward and replied, "His attempts to summon the assassin Rafe remain unheeded


    34. The ball of flame still floated before her, though now both her hands rested at her sides


    35. He floated right behind her, for he had set his space to pseudo zero-g


    36. He saw no seams, it all seemed to be carved from one mountain of granite and floated into position atop the crystal pillars


    37. onto a large branch and floated with it towards the bridge


    38. A mass of vines and branches floated in the air high above him


    39. For a while he floated, burning, waiting to land on solid ground


    40. Blooms of purple slimy stuff floated in the puddles

    41. Brontes floated down the chamber, his blue flames occasionally leaping out to aid the remaining elves, hastening their job of finishing off the undead


    42. Ome floated down the glassy hall, the single, circular orifice on his face hissing as it sucked in air


    43. I was about to tell Izzy to pull back, when the feather twitched on a breeze and floated in the air


    44. The more time passed, the more Lunarey learned about the world around her, and the more she became indifferent to the many question marks that floated around her head


    45. A cup of coffee slowly floated itself over to him


    46. A few seconds later, a pristine, beautiful voice floated through the window to him


    47. The soil collected in her palm shivered and then floated in the air, inches away from her hand


    48. Meanwhile she activated her office console, text floated up: Welcome, Dr Fortenski


    49. As we moved slowly toward Bethlehem, a few clouds floated across the expanse and I was thankful when the sun emerged, if only for a few moments


    50. The subtle aroma of wine floated on the air, as well as a waxy scent from the lone candle














































    1. Johnny, who was still protecting The Operator, realized he was floating off the ground and heading toward the ceiling at an accelerating rate


    2. They were filled with lots of scrolling screens floating in formations in the air


    3. She iconed the voice connection as an antique telephone handset floating over the current sensors plot table that was right in front of them


    4. of his thoughts and floating away before he could catch hold of them


    5. him forward into the painful glare of the candles floating on their ledges


    6. He zoomed in expecting to see a human figure in an exosuit floating out there in the debris, clinging to a piece of rent bulkhead like some parody of a castaway


    7. Floating on air, I make my way back to the car park and, in a glow of pride and happiness at a job well done, I drive home singing along to the songs on the radio in the car


    8. Three hours later, through the bridge’s dome, Tig could see Wambach and the others out on the ring section floating, half disappeared in the yellow fog


    9. Lying in bed, floating in a sea of alcohol and partying, something is nagging at the back of my head …


    10. Through those repetitions of days with Smiler on duty, I sat on the mattress and watched the world spin away from me as though I were floating above a stage set

    11. I have some recollection of movement during these days, of hands lifting my body and bathing me, of the mattress floating away on a Mediterranean breeze to be replaced by something fresh and clean


    12. Alan distracted her with questions about some floating animal they were passing on the river


    13. It was a fuel company making lantern fuel out of the morass on big crystal factory ships more like floating villages than ships


    14. The guard grabbed hold of MacKenzie’s frail arm, visibly bruising him as he hauled him forward into the painful glare of the candles floating on their ledges


    15. Ragged backed sheep, floating webs of winter fatigue,


    16. easier with minutes and the floating


    17. bread floating on a pond,


    18. Unlike the stream it was deep and filled with thick purple-green floating leaves


    19. Gilla is floating round the house singing to herself and, although I am delighted that she is so happy, quite frankly, it gets on my nerves and only serves to point up my own pretty parlous situation with regard to relationships … their non-existence generally and, more specifically, the chances of one actually manifesting itself at any time in the future


    20. It's direction of flow was back toward the south, but it was so stagnant you had to watch something floating in it for awhile to figure that out

    21. An hour and a half later she came down the mountain floating on air


    22. standing free upon this floating cairn,


    23. floating free in the abyss,


    24. I imagined the life there, far from towns, with the faintest strain of music floating in the air and the echo of modest family voices


    25. As for the kidnapper, that devious impresario, it is said that he appears briefly in cameo in every one of Archibald’s films, his pale head floating like a spectral balloon across a corner of some vast landscape, sneering and leering and mouthing the words, “I’ll get you back for this you old witch…I’ll be back…”


    26. There were many questions floating around in his mind, but he was too tired to think about them anymore


    27. “Yes we do, but they were created in space above the planet on a floating science laboratory;” Duncan began to protest but Kai held up his large hand, “it is cloaked Commander


    28. I was home, safe, floating in the womb of my mamma and I was me - a part of it all


    29. I feel as though I’m floating on a cloud somewhere in the vicinity of heaven – but despite that, there’s an air of unreality about all this which scares me


    30. He could see several dead bodies floating about near the ship

    31. say they have succeeded in floating a frog in air


    32. seemed to be floating before it


    33. We’ve neither of us mentioned the word, but marriage is floating in the air … I know Dave has only suggested that I move in with him, but he’s not the sort of guy to want children outside of marriage, that much is blatantly clear


    34. The wind buffeted the building, whistling through an invisible gap in the window frame and making an eerie noise, high pitched, floating above the scouring of the rain


    35. came floating back through the fog of his fuddled


    36. The pressure is rising again and Billy can feel bubbles of nervous energy floating in his gut, as if, having descended into the depths, he is rising too quickly


    37. He hoped there was no floating debris in the black water between barges as he sliced between them by the light of a few random lanterns on the nearby docks


    38. Roman sat unaware of the radioactivity floating from her body, reading a


    39. especially with no sand floating in it


    40. Looking down she discovered she was floating, above the ground

    41. Booths of yaag and other stuff with lots of strange music and lights floating out


    42. The bass notes softened, became calm water reflecting the sky of birds, and the yandrille became a ship floating lightly on it


    43. DUST SEEN FLOATING IN THE STRIPS OF LIGHT


    44. everywhere and butterflies floating in the breeze


    45. the paper ad's floating


    46. dog floating in one of the canals, from then on keeping his


    47. floating with the current of a mighty river


    48. the river, floating on a kind of raft


    49. As the fire inside her dwindled, her senses returned and she realized that she was floating high above the head of Tetloan, suspended in the air by the arms of the elf


    50. Floating disembodied through the Void














































    1. Most of the yachts below were garden floats, fancy entertaining rooms on the water, most had upper floors with lavish trysting suites and rooms below decks for serving staff and crew


    2. Here the view over the rails was filled with what looked like the standard media supermodels of old Earth sunning themselves in the nude on the top decks of those garden floats


    3. She floats into the kitchen some minutes later


    4. ” he held up his glass of tea and pointed near the top, “Ice floats, you know


    5. Eventually, a huge chunk of the country breaks off and floats out to sea


    6. that floats in space some 200 plus miles above my head as


    7. gigantic ice floats to the rear


    8. floats were all around, they dared not to exceed six knots speed due to the danger of the ice floats, and there were five sails seen ahead


    9. Unfortunately the village parade was in full swing by this time and the police, thinking that we were another entry, directed Uncle Hobart to join the rest of the floats


    10. “Whatever floats your boat Kemp,” I said trying to stay calm

    11. He stood up with the oar in both hands, and started moving the boat slowly over to their floats, pulling up three empty crab pots


    12. ” Bear, being not shy to solve a problem, continue on to say, “Head over to those couple of floats near that island


    13. The smell from the dining hall floats over my nose, sweet and yeasty: baking bread


    14. 9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will convey them by sea in floats to the place that you shall


    15. Tobias presses into the wall behind me, so close to me that his chin floats over my head and I can feel his chest against my shoulders


    16. So, when we read of the spiritual body, we automatically think of a ghostlike, smoke like “thong” that floats in the air


    17. They shoot the fireworks out over the ocean and grandma’s ash neatly floats down into the sea


    18. should bring cedar trees from Libanus, which should be brought by floats to the haven of Joppa, according as it was commanded


    19. But it floats back up


    20. He floats over his house

    21. The bubble rain floats around slowly in different directions behind the UFO


    22. The water turns into little balls and floats forward


    23. Blood splatters in all directions, but floats upwards


    24. It passes through her shields and floats about twenty feet in the air and gets larger


    25. Another spike from a different area on his back floats upwards, changes direction and passes through his right molecule


    26. Bellona floats across to the cloud the ship is on and the small cloud goes into the rest of the cloud


    27. He steps onto it and floats over to where Bellona is


    28. Within the immensity of space floats a


    29. A drum beat floats over the Temple


    30. One of the floats dipped under the water

    31. 55 to them of Zidon also and Tyre they gave carrs that they should bring cedar trees from Libanus which should be brought by floats to the haven of Joppa according as it was commanded them by Cyrus King of the Persians


    32. Floats in the air


    33. The modern version would be ‘whatever floats your boat is good’


    34. something that floats and throw it!!” I yelled at them, and turned


    35. the object in the matter of his (lower) Causal body This image floats in the


    36. can be clearly seen as a bright dot which hovers or floats in front of the


    37. feeds, search and a host of other features all into one application that floats throughout the web


    38. He floats upward to a stand, his eyes popping out and his tongue swelling up


    39. uncontrollable as it drifts and floats being literally “pushed around” by the sand


    40. Her heavy brown hair whips in the blowback around her smiling face, pointed canines pierce the darkness that her head floats in

    41. With such a massive girth he floats over the water like leviathan moving the smaller bodies out of his way


    42. If he floats it would be for a while before swimmers notice he wasn’t kicking and screaming like the rest of them


    43. The girls keep partying around you, Spencer’s body floats on the top of the water


    44. She places them on Ren’s face and kisses her open mouth, then dances away, black pencil dress twisting and gold jewelry glowing, she floats in her heels towards the door


    45. You watch yourself turn to where your ghost floats


    46. Hanging from floats at the parade are idiot piñatas that the children take turns whacking the limbs off of and then they all pounce on the candy guts that burst and go flying everywhere


    47. ‘Scum floats to the top


    48. "Thank you Babsy, The boating bus which floats along the stream will flow steadily and quicker


    49. A man of astounding perfection, the likes of which he has never witnessed, walks towards him, yet floats on the air


    50. The figure which floats above the hills is of enormous size, but exactly












































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    Synonyms for "float"

    air bladder float swim bladder plasterer's float ice-cream float ice-cream soda be adrift blow drift swim platform buoy cork bob hover levitate waft

    "float" definitions

    the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment


    the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public


    a drink with ice cream floating in it


    an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade


    a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco


    something that floats on the surface of water


    an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy


    be in motion due to some air or water current


    be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom


    set afloat


    circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with


    move lightly, as if suspended


    put into the water


    make the surface of level or smooth


    allow (currencies) to fluctuate


    convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation