How To Use Buoy In A Sentence

Diving underweighted can lead to buoyant ascents at the end of the dive, so I am not advocating that everyone knocks a couple of kilos off the next time they dive.
It's soundproof and completely dark, and I go in there for a couple of hours at a time, You don't realize how much stress you carry around in your muscles and tissue until you lie in this completely buoyant environment.
Stocks spent most of the day in positive territory, buoyed in part by the University of Michigan's report showing consumer confidence rose in March to 95.8 from 94.4 in February.
A critical specialization in the locomotor spectrum for aquatic animals is buoyancy.
The buoyant mood of his audience was certainly out of kilter with the deep undercurrent of frustration evident elsewhere in Bournemouth this week.

As the tragedy unfolded, the eyewitness tried to find a lifebuoy.
This decline was due partly to the generally buoyant economy that saw fewer people filing claims. A Conceptual View of Human Resource Management: Strategic Objectives, Environments, Functions
Defying all laws of buoyancy, he continued walking into the water until the surface was a good five feet above him.
October 31 was a good day with a \ "vigorous, buoyant rally from bell to bell\". Recently Uploaded Slideshows
The shell contains a gas which makes it semi-buoyant, permitting the nautilus to change depth and to swim.
This is despite the fact that no account has been taken of the potentially depressing impact on economic activity and revenue buoyancy of their tax raising proposals.
I had taken Jason to the Roseland headland in the Fal estuary by the green-painted East Narrows navigation buoy - due east and one mile from the docks.
The driving force of primary migration is mainly abnormal high pressure and that of secondary migration is buoyance and fluid potential difference.
But radiation levels at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant dropped on Friday, further buoying the Nikko. Asia Markets Higher; Tokyo Up 2.5%
This procedure confers on the armadillo enough additional buoyancy to enable it to float.
But the brat pack ego that buoyed him through the 1990s is wearing thin. Times, Sunday Times
In contrast to the rowers and the cyclists, British swimmers seemed weighed down rather than buoyed by the roars of the home crowd. Times, Sunday Times
After about ten minutes of surfing through this site, I feel buoyant and hopeful once again.
Excise duty revenue from alcoholic drinks is much less buoyant than total excise duty.
They were all in buoyant mood.
Whether Swedish, shiatsu or a basic sports massage, these rubdowns have earned their reputation for buoying mind, body and spirit.
They are framed by a lifebuoy from the former Aranui ferry, which was dedicated on the same day as their school.
Tankers have to use floating hoses to connect with a single buoy mooring, which channel oil through subsea hoses to the pipelines.
A lot of times, it's a two-loop swim, and the turn buoy is only 300 yards away. USATODAY.com - Kemper's reality: Swim, bike, run, get to the airport, eat
This introductory course in hydrostatics of ships covers buoyancy, weights, metacenters and stability at small and large angles of heel and trim.
Although markets were jittery during the day as votes in the key state of Ohio were counted, stocks were buoyed after Mr Kerry conceded defeat.
It takes a very buoyant personality to cope with constant rejection.
Buoyed, very likely, by Ron Charles's positive review a week or so back click the title below to be linked to the page on the Web. BOOK WORLD - February 27, 2011
For some reason best known to whoever it was, a lifebuoy on Abbeyside strand was taken from its berthing and shamelessly burned.
Their critical apparatus grinds into motion and, often many years later, buoyed by exegesis, the original at last rises to the surface.
Second, buoyage and charting are limited - and there's no Coast Guard or TowBoatU.S. to save your bacon if you skewer your yacht on a reef.
HOT: in reference to a sonobuoy, holding enemy contact. Terror At Dawn
In the financial press the gangbuster talk is of a powerhouse economy and a buoyant and robust outlook.
And this happened against a buoyant economic background. Times, Sunday Times
The aim is to make the process as smooth as possible and help increase the succession rate for buoyant businesses.
Household spending, public consumption and investment have all grown strongly and the housing market remains buoyant.
What gives it buoyancy makes it taste disgusting. Times, Sunday Times
Mining stocks were also buoyed by rising commodity prices. Times, Sunday Times
So Marine Mining's vessel will bring the waste to a floating buoy 700 m from the shore at Gwithian.
The tank is filled with about 10 inches of a buoyant Epsom salts water solution heated to body temperature.
Cork is a very buoyant material.
This huge iceberg had come over our position and sunk the buoy with our safety line. Times, Sunday Times
We were flying and we came ashore jubilant and buoyed up.
Information is gathered from a multitude of sources including surface observation points, ships, buoys and aircraft.
Buoyant circles, rings and squiggles float like islands and lena, at times, an amusing semblance of comic-book drawing.
German domestic consumption buoyed the German economy.
After the search, experts will assess the hull before attaching giant sponson buoyancy tanks to refloat it. Times, Sunday Times
I felt rather buoyed up by this and confirmed in my occasionally libidinous ways.
Indeed, Hem's songs - no matter how bleak - project a hope and buoyancy that would grate were it not for their deftness and skill.
Furthermore, food productivity has been buoyant throughout the recent decades.
He conducts an awkward interview in a swimming pool with increasing buoyancy issues. Times, Sunday Times
Buoyed by my success with the paintings, I decided to go along in person. Times, Sunday Times
The heat of the igneous body initiates convection of the water, which is heated as it is drawn into the body and carries heat away after it becomes warm and buoyant, only to be replaced by cooler water drawn in from the sides.
The hawser is a thick rope, or cable, to which the lifebuoy is suspended when in action. Battles with the Sea
After the First World War, passenger numbers declined, as road transport improved but freight traffic remained buoyant.
Of course I am not so foolish as to suppose that all my work can have been achieved without _some_ penalty, and I have noticed for some time a decided change in my buoyancy and hopefulness -- in other words, in my usual The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
Browning laid the scene of his poem in Germany, save perhaps the use of such words as "thorp" and "croft," but there is a clean, pure morning light playing through the verse, a fresh, health-breathing northern air, which does not fit in with Italy; a joyous, buoyant youthfulness in the song and march of the students who carry their master with gay strength up the mountain to the very top, all of them filled with his aspiring spirit, all of them looking forward with gladness and vigour to life -- which has no relation whatever to the temper of Florentine or The Poetry Of Robert Browning
He saw the buoy floating above the Inchcape Rock.
Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in buoyant health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.
Only female argonauts grow the shell-like structures, but males have very different bodies, presumably with different buoyancy issues.
Flotation collars are used to buoy space capsules that land in the sea.
The melody flows or soars like the song of a bird, because it is the free expression, not of musical fantasy, as such (the unconscious play of tonal fancy), but the flow of _melody_, _song_, the soaring of spirit in some one particular direction, floating upon buoyant pinions, and in directions well conceived and sure. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
They would have three good ships for cutting grapnels and holding grapnels, so that they could buoy and lift the cable in three parts.
Moreover, Bartol and company managed to visualize the flow of water around a boxfish by placing neutrally buoyant beads in the water and filming the beads as they swept past plastic models of the fish.
Even her buoyant presence fails to keep this cinematic clunker from sinking.
With the airy animation and effervescence of his personality, he seems to bob like a buoy on the ocean.
``Then up-anchor and get over to the buoys and work out their position from your box of tricks," snapped Ziegler. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
Agile and on his toes most of the time Dr Syiem hardly looks like a person who has had a tryst with Cancer and for the time being it seems he has beaten it with his optimism resilience and buoyancy.
The lines of supporting buoys have been adopted by cormorants, gulls, guillemots, eider ducks, oystercatchers and even the odd heron.
Having achieved this, the fishermen then returned to the marker buoy to retrieve the anchor.
I try not to overuse the word "lilting" when describing a band's music; it's one of those adjectives that really has to be earned by a certain sweet, heartfelt buoyancy in the way a song is performed. Playback:stl Syndication
The SUNS system can determine positions underwater by the use of small buoys which broadcast the position and time references by sonar signals.
Instead, they are full of light, buoyant and bottomlessly interesting. Times, Sunday Times
It remains to be seen if the buoyancy of the eurozone's core spills over to the periphery, or whether the periphery drags the core down. Times, Sunday Times
The party is buoyed up by the latest opinion poll results.
TOKYO—Yields on long and superlong Japanese government bonds rose to two-month highs Wednesday ahead of an auction of 30-year debt and as buoyant share prices gave investors a reason to push European debt concerns into the background. Japanese Yields at 2-Month Highs
The raft would be more buoyant if it was less heavy.
To safely navigate a boat, one has to be able to see and identify day marks, buoys and the occasional sign for the restaurant we want to visit.
In contrast to his vigour and emotional buoyancy later in seeing off the so-called fuel blockade, this dark episode was equally to infuriate, exhaust and exasperate the First Minister.
With its insane mix of loves-me-loves-me-nots, switcheroos, flawed motives, crooked laughs and crying babies, it is one of cinema's most buoyant genres.
If your buoyancy control is good and the current is minimal, the three-plus minutes can be spent in a relaxing hover.
The buoy floated back and forth in the shallow water.
The snorkel, flippers, and goggles are definitely material objects, as are the air tank, the regulator, and the buoyancy control device.
Furthermore, food productivity has been buoyant throughout the recent decades.
They were also buoyed by the management's belief that prospects beyond next year appear more promising. Times, Sunday Times
A&L's share price anyway seems to have been buoyed up by the prospect of predators in the wings, when it becomes prey at the end of the month.
Traders were buoyed by a rise in US factory output and a jump in Chinese manufacturing. The Sun
In this race everybody goes in pairs and each pair had to get a board and paddle out to a buoy about 10 meters out and back.
The molten fraction can then separate and rise buoyantly up into the crust.
This book evinces a buoyant confidence and a relaxed visionary quality.
They've navigated their way through narrow channels and around dangerous shoals using the same buoys and other navigational aids.
The system relies on seismographic sensors, which detect the seabed tremors and tiny changes in water pressure that warn of a tsunami, installed in a network of buoys across the Indian Ocean.
The general buoyancy of the advertising market in recent years has dispelled doomy predictions about the prospects for both, but the real action for the past decade and a half has been in the magazine market.
After the search, experts will assess the hull before attaching giant sponson buoyancy tanks to refloat it. Times, Sunday Times
The French conglomerate declared a 2.6 per cent dip in profits - which at comparable exchange rates stands at nearer 5 per cent - but a strong season for Gucci helped buoy the profits as the label posted a sales increase of around 10 per cent for the same period. Undefined
The ‘survivalists’ are certainly doing their share to buoy the gold market.
Having lost his sail and rig, he was found curled around a buoy clinging to his board by a coastguard rescue helicopter from Lee-on-the-Solent.
It has further been shown that the propagating distance of the deformation front depends on the brittle integrated strength and buoyancy force of the overriding plate, as well as the amount of migration of the trench.
Owls hooted in the trees as the tide on Boston Harbor buoyed a fleet of small rowboats toward Cambridge Shore.
There has been a massive temporary boost to our competitiveness from a low dollar, which is the main reason for our current economic buoyancy.
Weight reduction is not as important in swimming because the body mass is subject to buoyancy by being immersed in water.
He caught a glimpse of a pinup calendar above a dressing table, some bars of Lifebuoy soap.
Share prices were buoyant today in active trading.
The harbour is a lighterage port where ships are worked in stream buoys by means of lighters and pontoons for loading and offloading cargo.
The mooring buoy grid itself will be safer and far more compact than the present anchoring arrangements and will leave plenty of space for other boats to anchor.
On the one hand, a stock that is moving up can gather momentum, as ‘success breeds success’ and popularity buoys the stock higher.
For those who are already buy-to-let landlords, things are buoyant. Times, Sunday Times
Where his dexterous playing and effortless meter manipulation often buoyed the band's corybantic compositions, here, he's sadly mollified.
When a submarine changes its course or speed in relation to a sonobuoy, the event shows up as a change in the frequency of the sound source. Terror At Dawn
Her optimism, that lifebuoy of hope that kept her floating above the reality of the marriage, seemed insubstantial in the face of the force that was her husband. A Small Death in the Great Glen
Dawn knows elevations and candlepower, stuff about flashes and blinks and buoys. THE SHIPPING NEWS
Once needing sinkage, the semi-spherical containers can be gradually opened for water inlet; when gravity is equal to buoyancy, the diving device can suspend in the water.
The effect of this revision has been to transform Scotland's regular flirtation with recession into a steady relationship with economic buoyancy.
Observations on the neutrally buoyant ammoniacal cephalopods of the mesopelagic zone are rare and based on submarine or ROV observations that are typically brief.
Farmers are experiencing buoyant demand for cauliflowers, sprouts and swedes as families shop for the freshest, top quality veg to accompany their roast turkey.
First, water provides sharks with substantial buoyancy, whereas air does not confer the same benefit to aircraft.
Unfortunately, the foam insulation inside the suit also makes divers more buoyant and even less able to swim downward.
A slightly revised model has just gone on sale, which should help to buoy sales as the year progresses.
Always buoyed up by hope. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
There was buoyant air and I got to even climb a bit from 700'.
What could I, helpless, houseless, fortuneless, be but a weight upon that buoyancy and ambition of eminence which marks superior natures for the superior honours of life. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
When the economy began the descent into recession in the late 1980s, property prices continued to rise, buoyed by an interest rate cut designed to revive the economy in the wake of the 1987 stock market plunge.
Butchers confirmed that sales were buoyant, with beef being the number one seller.
The meeting of Abbeyside and Shamrocks is equally difficult to call, although Shamrocks will go into the game in buoyant mood following their impressive victory over Dungarvan last time out.
Prices are also being buoyed by a lack of properties. Times, Sunday Times
Many fishermen may be unaware of the effect of their activities on the salmon stock or may not know that the buoys around farms indicate the presence of a network of moorings and anchors keeping the farm in place.
The fat layer kept them warm and buoyant, their secretions prevented build-up of excess salt from sea water and their larynx was protected against submersion.
The flagship of Trinity House Lighthouse Service, her function is to cruise the coastal waters of England, Wales and the Channel Islands, servicing and repairing lighthouses, lightships, buoys and other navigational markers.
The giant orb plopped onto the path of an oncoming ferry and bobbed around like some wayward kind of multicoloured buoy.
People have a spring in their step, are laughing and chatting, buoyed up with the knowledge that their team whacked Glenn Hoddle's Tottenham Hotspur between the eyes twice last week.
Kitted out with helmets, wetsuits, buoyancy aids and paddles, our team piles into two inflatable rafts, drifting gently downriver.
Formerly landlord of the eponymous Comedian pub at Sunniside, the ever-buoyant Bob has gone downhill to Crook.
So the rocks were uncovered now, which seldom tasted the air, and the stems of the great oarweed, or tangle, which grew from them, were bent into a half-circle by the weight of their broad leathery fronds, as, no longer buoyed up by the sea, they lay trailing on the sands.
This buoy was lowered in lat. 51 deg. 28 min., long. 38 deg. 42 min .... on the 4th of The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition
She smiled brightly, her own buoyant optimism coming to the surface again.
Other operators Owners Abroad and Airtours confirm they anticipate a more buoyant market post-election.
They have built a buoy that may prove to be an efficient, nonpolluting generator of electricity.
Water-dispersed seeds, such as coconuts, are buoyant.
We have a buoyant economy and unemployment is considerably lower than the regional average.
Minutes after the sonobuoy was in the water, the faint sound of a submarine screw entered the headphones of a young petty officer aboard the helicopter.
The disappointing return from the publicity blitz was doubly concerning as it coincided with a buoyant period for the mobile phone industry generally.
Their music melds together a scuzzy, squally blend of rebellious gospel/folk that at times possesses the radiant buoyancy of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, and in quieter moments the seeping warmth of M Ward or intelligent, lovely meanderings of Elvis Perkins. Heather Browne: Drew Grow Brings Rock and Roll Salvation
Buoyed by the success of their purchases, the twins have decided to make a business of it. Times, Sunday Times
We had no life buoy during that time, so everyone took a inside car tire.
The Smeaton rode at what sailors call a salvagee, with a cross-head made fast to the floating buoy. Records of a Family of Engineers
Different swimming strokes target different parts of the body, while the buoyancy of the water cushions muscles and joints.
Kitted out with helmets, wetsuits, buoyancy aids and paddles, our team piles into two inflatable rafts, drifting gently downriver.
The warm, glowing drone of Oliveros' accordion breathes its way through a patchwork of chimes and the gentle fluting of the whistlebuoys.
Much of the Korean economy's buoyancy can be traced to the effects of banking reforms since Korea's 1997 financial crisis.
So Marine Mining's vessel will bring the waste to a floating buoy 700 m from the shore at Gwithian.
Shelton handed the boathook to Angus and point at the buoy.
But the brat pack ego that buoyed him through the 1990s is wearing thin. Times, Sunday Times
The section's title poem, an incantatory piece, again acknowledges the weight of exchange, although the poem feels buoyant and light; it is a kind of waking song for the narrator's yet-unborn baby.
First, the market's recent buoyancy is stirring investor greed.
The Shenzhen-based company, China's second biggest life insurer, said a rate increase in the mainland should in fact buoy its investment returns.
But it also said the family's boat had modifications on its hull that reduced its buoyancy.
We hit that buoy -- I mean I thought we were all headed to Davy Jones 'locker right there and then they have this kind of screwy rule in sailboat racing where if you hit the buoy, you can go back and surround it three times. CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2009
The flag of the first buoy is scarlet and the ball is under the flag. The Atlantic Telegraph Expedition
Thus is Philip Gura caught in neutral buoyancy between belief and hope.
He points out that even in last year's buoyant market 5000 repossession actions were lodged in Scottish courts, and he is very fearful of what might happen if prices crash.
'Thank God,' Jody Burgess exclaimed, standing up, coming around the bed with a kind of buoyantly expectant expression and both arms outstretched. The Hearing
In an attempt to rescue the truck's occupants, several people waded out to a high point of land and improvised a lifeline from barbed wire cut from a nearby fence and a spare tire as a buoy.
The grass beside the well, buoyantly undisturbed, leads to an analogy with sedge which is growing near the sea on much shakier ground. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson
In the last decade of his life he grew less buoyant.
The global economy is buoyant and continues to push up the price of oil and commodities. Times, Sunday Times
These weights have a hole or holes bored into them and help, with the aid of buoyant floats, keep the net vertical in the water and fished as a gill or seine net.
In the Great Lakes, the conventional direction of buoyage is generally considered westerly and northerly, except on Lake Michigan, where southerly movement is considered as returning from the sea. Sailing Fundamentals
When you swim in the sea, try to push a life buoy into the water.
I returned from Southern California Tuesday evening in a buoyant mood, sated in the senses after two weeks amongst three small grandboys and one teenaged granddaughter.
Yorkshire were in buoyant mood today for their Benson and Hedges Cup match against Derbyshire at Headingley which marked the opening of their home season.
This means that excise duty revenue from alcoholic drinks is not buoyant.
Ruti Nkuna and her irresistible clan of children and adult kin guided, taught, buoyed, rescued, relaxed, chastened, and reassured me every step of the way in Magude. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
The raft would be more buoyant if it was less heavy.
buoyant balloons
That said, he is in an exceptionally sweet mood today, buoyed up by Friday's release of his new film, Angela's Ashes, and, I'd say, not exactly dismayed by the controversy it has generated.
Downing Street has been buoyed by polling suggesting strong public support for welfare reform. Times, Sunday Times
Their imminent frontality is buoyant and percussive -- somewhere between a wall of water and a wall of flame. The Lighthearted Abstract Expressionist
They said they felt so buoyed up as they were such a great bunch of students.
Many of the larger companies, by contrast, have been buoyed by the strength of their chemical operations of late.
However, the more complexly the marginal fluting, the better is the anchorage of the soft tissue to the buoyant conch.
As we skimmed across the lagoon, sniffing the sea air, there was nothing to see at first but the odd sea bird perched on a marker buoy.
Phil was in buoyant mood.
Yet Daley remained outwardly serene, sometimes buoyant, while all around him the tension was building.
The air of despair that pervaded the Greenyards last season has been supplanted by a buoyant optimism borne out of two successive wins by Melrose in the opening rounds of the BT Premiership.
This distance is termed a radius because for small heel angles, the locus of successive centers of buoyancy approximates a circular arc, with the transverse metacenter as its center.
Buoyed by my success with the paintings, I decided to go along in person. Times, Sunday Times
German domestic consumption buoyed the German economy.
Your July cover caption reflects that the Star Flyer is ‘gliding peacefully through the Aegean Sea’ when she actually rests at anchor, tied between two mooring buoys.
Indeed, the band's famously-honed instincts and dayglo pop-smarts provide the contradictory musical notions that never allow the album to sway too far in one bleak direction or another: it's that friction extant between Chesnutt's shadowy worldview and the inventive bounce and bray of Elf Power's euphonous intraband chemistry that buoys Dark Developments, provides its freshness, and makes for rewarding repeated listening. My Old Kentucky Blog
He got the idea when at age 7 he saw reed boats in Peru and thought what buoyant material he might use to make his own boat in Michigan.
Luckily the men were wearing their buoyancy-compensating vests and wetsuits.
Second half of North Channel, buoys and beacons ... ... 31st March, 1898 Argentina from a British Point of View
His buoyant, spicy soprano sax is front and centre, burbling among the snappy rhythms and lush textures of the vibrantly produced tracks.
Around the magnet is an electrical coil attached to the floating buoy.
When we motor into the channel, however, I can't help noticing that the mooring buoy is trailing a foaming wake as the outgoing tide thunders past the boat.
It is hard enough to imagine the size of whales, and they live today and in the buoyant water.
Despite losing the election, Sinn Fein's Colm Burns was in buoyant mood, pointing to the fact he topped the polls at the first count.
Three of the six existing Pacific coast buoys have had malfunctions in recent months.
The United States won a significant victory and, buoyed up by a public opinion that seems to hear no evil and see no evil, looks determined to press on and try and score others.
Her music reflects youthful buoyancy and her rich repertoire keeps the audience spellbound.

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