How To Use Float In A Sentence

Such football titbits always float to the surface on third-round day which remains the best, most hectic, interesting and fun day of the season - and this one was even more frenetic than usual.
Said hi also to a few of the guys from Aereogramme after they'd finished up, but wasn't actually sure of who was there from Chemikal Underground or what they look like, so I was basically floating around and looking glaikit until Mags pointed out the Newsnight crew, and the nice interviewer man figured out who I was. Archive 2007-02-01
The most interesting statistic on the list is the large number of accidents where the pilot attempted to land with the gear down with amphibious floats.
They drifted into the control room and floated above the sensor-generated hologram of the â€œherd. â€ The â€œherdâ€ consisted of approximately 3,000 mountain-sized blocks of ice that once were comet 2P/Encke. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
I use long lengths of floating row cover, anchored with bricks and stones, on annual and perennial beds.

Your clock has a floating balance mechanism.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hand can't hit, what the eye can't see. Muhammad Ali
Her hands, drawn to the keyboard, floated into a long appoggiatura. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
The high tide of adaptationism floated a motley navy, but it may now be on the ebb. Adaptationism
There were floating candles that decorated the pool and the fountain, as well as ornamental flowers arrangements.
Unfortunately, the locker room is full of private equity houses hoping to refloat gym club chains. Times, Sunday Times
An empty bottle will float.
And though you could not mark the delicacies of faces, you could have the full effect of costumes, -- rich, majestic, floating, gossamery, impalpable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
The first is a long, sleeveless silk dress, which has a looser cut that is "beachy, floaty and has movement" but which also has a slight air of "drama" due to its elegant, floor-dusting hemline. Packing Just Enough for a Weekend at the Beach
In her later works, large, amorphous shapes seem to float on the canvas.
A dense garbage of cans and plastic bags float past. Times, Sunday Times
Then members of the mandirs or businesses sponsoring the floats personalized them with balloons and garlands.
- Some floats would get converted incorrection during research planning causing the LUA for tech research to terminate. 4Players.de News
I can't find my purse, but it must be floating around here somewhere.
As you float over this ledge watch for the infamous Crown of Thorns Sea Star.
Snorkelers can have a grand time floating just 30 feet above the stern, watching the divers below and the thousands of fish that live in the wreck.
Purple and green dinosaur inflatable float with green vinyl seat bucket and yellow inflatable adjustable sunshade.
Russia decided to float the rouble on the foreign exchange market.
But they emphasise the importance of relinquishing some of what you've been struggling to keep afloat. Times, Sunday Times
I’m burning gut flab, a word floats in my head—beginning. Tricks
Inside a spacecraft in orbit round the Earth an astronaut could float weightless, hardly in contact with the floor.
They cannot fly or dive yet and they spend the next few weeks just floating about. Times, Sunday Times
The budget airline was floated on the stock market in 1997 and since 1998 some 10 million share options have been awarded to workers.
The swimming pool was decorated with fairy lights and floating candles and a table for the intimate party of 12 was set outside.
Sources said the company had already looked at a float. Times, Sunday Times
But she also comes across as a humourless frump, needing constant cajoling from her husband to stay afloat.
Flooding and floating affecting the appearances and the effect of latex paint and film were investigated.
The floating sunbathing platform anchored offshore. Times, Sunday Times
When the pressure in the venturi is lower than the atmospheric pressure, the gasoline in the float bowl enters the airstream going into the engine.
He says fear of failure keeps him afloat. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, the most peculiar thing is that she was semi-transparent, glowing in a soft yellow hue - that, and her eyes seemed to be empty, two black ovals floating in the middle of the light.
A rumor is floating about that the businessman is getting ready to waste millions again in a futile attempt to become governor, but that's relevant only to the coyotes who will take his money.
After four hours afloat, the gorge narrowed to some two hundred yards. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
She had to remortgage her house to keep the business afloat. Times, Sunday Times
So the word "incognito" is projected on to the set and floats around ardently pursued by Julian Barratt's mayor. Government Inspector – review
Eire's punt, once tied to sterling, was allowed to float free.
Once again, he was incorporeal, a mere awareness floating in space. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Second, there is an additive in that anthrax, bentonite, which is used to cause the anthrax to not stick together, and float in the air. Hullabaloo
Once or twice a day the intrepid fisherman ‘runs’ his trot line meaning he gets in a boat and checks the hook dangling beneath each float and if necessary sticks a fresh perch on it for bait.
This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip.
In France, industrial investment came first; in Britain, the Counterpart Fund was almost entirely used to pay wartime debts and re-float sterling.
Perhaps the second most concerning misclaim being floated about the DP World deal is that it was conducted in secrecy. Ross Chanin: The Dubai Deal and Those Things Not Said
On that day, the three rods with the floats produced most of the fish.
The new legislation which was intended to `soak up "the millions of them floating round the country has backfired in its purpose. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
The metal's surface tension is great enough to permit a steel needle to be floated on its surface.
Fiery red blossoms float amongst olive green leaves that are heavily mottled with chocolate and maroon.
The ambatch float remained perfectly stationary upon the surface.
This procedure confers on the armadillo enough additional buoyancy to enable it to float.
So here you had the scenario, you've got a highjacker on the plane; he's got his passport in his pocket, or in his luggage, and they hit the building, and this enormous fireball erupts and this passport floats out of his pocket or whatever, and gets through the fireball without being singed, then it gets out of the building and falls to the ground where somebody can find it. Interview with David Ray Griffin on the Rob Kall Radio Show
Pair with a floaty skirt for maximum impact. Times, Sunday Times
Kate, Madeline's ladysmaid, floated around not really doing anything and occasionally darting angry looks in my direction.
Based on data submitted so far, Mr. Dongarra said, the Sunway machine has "credible" sustained performance of about 795 teraflops--or trillion floating-point operations per second, a measure of scientific calculations based on standard tests. China Supercomputer Uses Homegrown Chips
While some consider giant salvinia to be an attractive aquatic plant, this free-floating fern is also an obnoxious invader that's sometimes referred to as ‘the world's worst water weed.’
This operation receives an input message with floating-point amount and string zip, and an output message with floating-point rate and integer tax.
Underneath the horizontal skyscraper is a landscaped area with a number of water features which give the impression that the building is floating on water. digg this digg this email this email this tweet this tweet this facebook this facebook this Steven Holl’s LEED Platinum Horizontal Skyscraper Completed! Vanke Center by Steven Holl – Inhabitat
But round about the Iland, for the space of 7. or 8. moneths in a yere there floateth ise, making a miserable kind of mone, and not vnlike to mans voice, by reason of the clashing together. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
I regarded my toes as they peeped out of the water while I floated on my back.
The number of sums that a computer can handle is measured by 'flops' (floating-point operations per second). Times, Sunday Times
Fishing floats have always been irresistible bounty for beachcombers.
Jarre stood some distance away from him, staring in awe at the coralite isle floating in the pearl-blue sky. The Hand of Chaos
For, they are eager to see the floating population streaming in at the time of political meetings, since it leads to a surge in their business transactions.
A spongy, Dijon-colored city of algae and microscopic creatures that floats on the surface, periphyton cleanses the Everglades of excess nutrients and pollutants.
Ocker Hill Power Station with two prominent chimneys, a sewage works and a canal surface with oil and floating debris.
Also, sea planes, when they take off or land, are quite vulnerable to what we call submerged debris, little things in the ocean that might catch on one of the wing floats as you might see on the picture there. CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2005
Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes! The Maids of Paradise
So while artists in 1860s Paris were discovering the beauty of Japanese "floating world" — or ukiyo-e — woodblock prints, many Japanese artists were heading to Yokohama, scouring European publications and creating their own genre of exotica: the Yokohama-e. How Japan Saw Us
Their conjugal affection still is ty'd,And still the mournful race is multiply'd:They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd,Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest:A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind,Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind;Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease,And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata
Simonelli says that approximately 90 % of finishers use float pans today for normal floor installation work.
If you don't take scripts which mean something you just become a kind of mindless floater.
In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab.
Rendered in black augmented by a thin sienna pinstripe, each is a variation on a halved or quartered circle which floats below center in a field of pale, luminous celadon green.
I was happily floating around to different groups all night, talking, chit-chatting, catching up with some old faces and taking silly pictures.
Instead of building large numbers of tiny, free-floating robots to manufacture products, it would be more practical to use simple robot-arms in nanotech factories of the future.
A raftful floats by every day, dainty blue canopies flaring in the breeze. Poetry, Please « Tales from the Reading Room
Needless to say there's more than a few class action lawsuits floating about at the moment.
It develops and manufactures a wide range of reconstructive orthopaedic devices and floated at 111p during May 2002.
The small collection of tops and skirts, based loosely on 1930s Chinese dresses, is elegant and demure, a long way from boho - the floaty skirts, peasant tops and leather disk belts her sister had us all wearing last summer.
Ten years ago, officials from the Western Isles Council were sweating, hoping, praying, that the BCCI would somehow be refloated; that they would go back to work on Monday with their finances restored.
She wore a floaty summer dress and bright blue trainers. Times, Sunday Times
The shed ‘floats’ on pier footings, allowing air to circulate beneath it so the room remains dry.
It abandoned a plan to float earlier this year. Times, Sunday Times
With withered leaves they weave their boats and smilingly float them on the vast deep.
Through the open windows the heavy, damp night came miasmically floating in, the very cigarettes mildewed in my pockets. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
Caernarvonshire, and on the Boulders transported by floating ice. Life of Charles Darwin
You gummed the pieces with sheer delight, making mmmm, mmmm noises and waving your hands like some beauty pageant winner on a float being pulled down Main Street.
When a fish bites the hook, the float bobs.
Tankers have to use floating hoses to connect with a single buoy mooring, which channel oil through subsea hoses to the pipelines.
Rendered in black augmented by a thin sienna pinstripe, each is a variation on a halved or quartered circle which floats below center in a field of pale, luminous celadon green.
You can also manage the float by speeding up collections and slowing down payments. Principles of Corporate Finance
There are still some unfounded fears floating around out there about cancer being contagious.
I also have a floating line which I use a lot during the summer months; it's an ideal line for fishing poppers.
They noticed fifty and twenty dollar bills floating in the water.
A stone lion's head, which seems to float above a potted plant, drips water into the pool.
With his keen sight and sound judgment, it would not have taken him long to determine that the inner part of the bay does not consist of floating barrier, but that the Barrier there rests upon a good, solid foundation, probably in the form of small islands, skerries, or shoals, and from this point he and his able companions would have disposed of the South Polar question once for all. The South Pole~ Plan and Preparations
Among the other Buddhist works is Suzuki Kiitsu ' s sublime 19th-century scroll painting of Sho-Kannon, who sits tranquilly on a floating lotus, backed by a golden moon and brilliant blue sky. In Search of Beauty
But, despite its supposed attunement to natural universal energy, the shares have not done well since the float. Times, Sunday Times
It was easy to get off to the centre, for the big pans at the edge would float a far greater weight than a komatik and dogs and three people. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour
It might include acknowledging your own mistakes, such as casually floating that $900 billion figure which forced House and Senate leaders to backload key provisions in the final bill. Harold Pollack: Some Unsolicited Advice for Howard Dean, and for President Obama, Too
I don't know that I'd go so far as to call our Mardi Gras tasteful I'm looking forward to the all-girl Camel Toe Steppers marching group tomorrow night, for example, but yeah, we're Miss Manners in comparison to this float. "If we had people dancing on top of dead bodies that would indeed be disrespectful."
And for those who want to stay afloat, or sail out of the doldrums, experienced and effective management will become even more crucial.
Therefore, the boat was equipped with fifteen watertight compartments, strictly divided up lengthways and breadthways, so she could stay afloat whatever happened.
Did anyone happen to see the alternate ending that is floating around the internet?
The patella, or kneecap, is a floating bone within the tendon of the quadriceps muscle group.
However, the education programme is a difficult task because of the large floating population and frequent international comings and goings.
HAMILTON: What keeps them afloat is the bestsellers. Jonathan Maberry Interviews Laurell K. Hamilton
The gas holder is normally an airproof steel container that, by floating like a ball on the fermentation mix, cuts off air to the digester (anaerobiosis) and collects the gas generated. Chapter 15
Using block-floating point arithmetic, the processor can provide a high quality.
Some, but not all, float by means of a large pneumatophore.
With favoring winds it is wafted past the site of the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the Hesperides, makes the periplus of Hanno, and, floating by Ternate and Tidore and the mouth of the Walden
I came up again to float on my back, short hair fanning around me, bangs plastered to my forehead.
He had purchased two Piper Cubs on floats and had also arranged with a local doctor to lease his new Republic Seabee amphibian.
But even the cutesy spelling of the store's name couldn't keep it afloat; the space has now reinvented itself as Spirit Halloween superstore. Harmon Leon: Do All Closed Businesses in SF Resurrect as Halloween Superstores?
The Leonin pieces alternate ensemble choruses of chant with organum passages which feature a solo voice floating melodic lines over the drone.
Just this wonderful fantasy of grabbing on to toy balloons and floating into open space. Times, Sunday Times
Here ingenuity led to more advanced ways of growing food, by covering rafts of branches and roots with earth to create chinampas or floating gardens.
The Man-of-War floats on a gas-filled, blue to pink, translucent body called a pneumatophore.
The long, narrow proportions of the 2,600 sf Patisserie is reinforced by a floating ceiling running the length of the interior, drawing the patron in from Queen Street to the depths of the kitchen.
Information recorded for all nests in all years included date found, incubation stage determined by floatation or candling, and status (parasitized or not parasitized).
She's worn one of my floaty chiffon gowns embroidered with petals but she can turn up in a pair of men's trousers with a print shirt. Times, Sunday Times
It is cropped close to the low-pitched gable roof of a ranch house where a mysterious figure enclosed in the oval medallion floats by.
As the airplane turns, the force that results from the magnetic dip causes the float assembly to swing in the same direction that the float turns.
Of course I don't want anyone beating themselves up over their body shape, but when YOUNG women, who could be eating right and exercising are 50-70 pounds overweight are are dressing in jogging bras and short shorts for their camping and hiking and river-floating, I have to wonder WHO has told them this is attractive?!?!?! Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine
The proposals were first floated in a report produced by a council-led scrutiny inquiry into gypsies and travellers and were revealed in the Daily Echo in October.
It will include floats, vintage cars, majorettes, stilt walkers, dancers and music.
Packing loan is a short-term loan , but it is of great difference from the general floating capital loan.
Three times a day the three of them sit down to eat at that table, in that floating house that smells of bilgewater and foot cream and baklava. Memory Wall
These publications made the mother of three float through her daily chores, burn the dinner, overcook the peas, but more important, enabled her to supplement the housekeeping.
Floating clouds of colour spun and drifted. Times, Sunday Times
Since 1986, the dalasi was unpegged to pound sterling where it has then free floated.
Although I've only recently stuck my toe in the fast-moving blogstream, I've been a fan -- and an advocate -- ever since bloggers took the Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond story, ran with it, and helped turn the smug Senate majority leaderinto the penitent former Senate majority leader, a bit of bloody political chum floating in a tank of hungry sharks. April 2004
You can choose either a fixed or floating interest rate for the loan.
As the float passed by the boat jetties, officials and tourists raised slogans against plastic items.
Why does the egg float in salt water?
She gasped as another memory floated to the surface, her drink slopping over the railing, cup falling to the ground.
I'm worried people have forgotten why those Pilgrims shipped over here in that floating breadbox.
This barge is a floating hotel, or "flotel," set up by BP and several subcontractors to accommodate more than 500 workers hired to clean up the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Home
Teaming a beautiful three-quarter-length floaty dress with a tailored coat means you can splash out on a great hat, but, once you remove it and your coat, you are left with something ravishing to dance in.
There really is an endearing quality to this thousand-pound-plus hunk of marine mammal as I watch it grab floating heads of lettuce to nosh just below the surface.
In the free-floating exchange of ideas, however, the scientists repeatedly put reins on wildly galloping progress.
Can you float on your back?
This kind of elimination, in which we do not eliminate any one assignable cause, but the multitude of floating unassignable ones, may be termed the A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
Anton's lifeless body was found floating in the lake.
The white cloud of smoke floated away.
Yet since its 2006 float, the share price has been on a leisurely saunter. Times, Sunday Times
In more distal positions within the ramp, the ‘background’ sediment is a fine- to medium-grained floatstone to rudstone with abundant, small fragments of delicate-branching bryozoans and branching coralline algae.
She spent the afternoon floating on her back in the pool.
They floated the idea of increased taxes on alcohol.
The desk floated through the door into the hallway.
There would be no safe way to have this anywhere near the boat, although Id think you might be able to attach some (soft nonmetallic) floats to it and tow it, but nobody is going to want that thing in port. Commercial Fisherman Lands Live Missile
She sort of floats around, like a ballet dancer.
The building's long, curved roofline is balanced on one side by a tall, twisting tower, with an observation deck floating above the city like a treehouse.
The floating glass divider turns up again to encapsulate a private library and two guest bedrooms.
Dust floated down from the ceiling and the lights flickered.
The Sargasso sea , a free-floating mass of sea weed mostly S.
In a floating - point representation , the numeral that represents the expon ent.
By now my igloo had become a small lake, and I was trying desperately to stay afloat. RESCUING ROSE
She gulped air, then pulled herself up to float as the water rose to six feet then seven feet, the ceiling was ten feet high, three feet now.
The coils are contained within a steel cylinder fitted with fins, which would float just below the surface of the water, anchored to the sea-bed by chains, and rotated by the force of the tides.
A V-shaped skein passing overhead with a cacophony of honks floating down still epitomizes wildness and freedom for many people.
So Marine Mining's vessel will bring the waste to a floating buoy 700 m from the shore at Gwithian.
Tract Rosh Hashana discusses the Jewish New Year, a floating holiday tied to lunar observations.
Unable to swim or summon help, he soon lost consciousness and floated face down just a few metres off the beach at the resort of Los Christianos in May.
And in the afternoon we went for a row on the river, pulling easily up the anabranch and floating down with the stream under the shade of the river timber -- instead of going to sleep and waking up helpless and soaked in perspiration, to find the women with headaches, as many do on Children of the Bush
It's like floating through storm clouds, getting lost in the at-once bright and ominous sound.
The boy floated his toy boat on the pond
And if her low register was occasionally underpowered near the end, she made up for it with a dramatic diminuendo/crescendo combination on her final, effortlessly floated high note. Lindstrom Shines as Last-Minute Soprano in 'Turandot'
The main difference between them is that a eukaryote has a nucleus, which contains its DNA, while a prokaryote does not have a nucleus, but instead its DNA is free-floating in the cell. AP Environmental Science Chapter 5- The Biosphere
But some of the silk eveningwear was fit for the most glamorous of parties, apron bibs floating across the chest then twisting into straps over the shoulders and asymmetrically across the back before dripping into a train.
‘You can't go and rent floatplanes anymore, but I know everybody all over the country who does float training.’
Might also try a bit too much liquid floatant, which might push scum away from the fly. Deeter: Help Me Catch That Scum-Sucking Pig! (And win a fly rod).
Inside a spacecraft in orbit round the Earth an astronaut could float weightless, hardly in contact with the floor.
Widely celebrated environmentalist John Todd doesn't promise that his aquatic bioremediation system - a sewage treatment system which involves floating plant islands that purify polluted waters - could live up to its hype in Montreal.
Hardy sprinkles little gold flakes that simultaneously float atop this buzz-maker and match the spectacular, cavernous Art Deco ambiance.
And when it was afloat all the chiefs were athirst, not being used to such toil; and I was told to climb the palms beside the canoe-sheds and throw down drink-coconuts. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
She was bent over the bridge videoing a gondola as it floated down the canal.
Xtools are a fine-looking line of marine tools; as the ISDA blog says, The rust-resistant tools feature tungsten-carbide cutting blades (for cutting braided wire) and foamy, soft-grip ergonomic handles that float. Boing Boing
A film that floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.
The wave pump consists of two floats, one above the other, fitted to a double-acting piston. Times, Sunday Times
Alice Hawthorne sold ice cream cones and root beer floats to the people of Albany, Ga.
The various lessons involve showing large and colourful letters on the screen, sometimes the float and bounce around.
Floating above all the ripe red berries is a whiff of wood smoke. Times, Sunday Times
And when the lights dimmed, faux snow began to float down from the ceiling and on to the sweet-smelling soil.
I floated down the stairs with the soft fabric of the dress swishing around my legs.
Stress is high, but in all likelihood, enough things are going well to keep you afloat for now.
You get into a situation, you have a bunch of ideas floating around, and you want to make a movie.
Sometimes you'd be lucky enough to have money for an ice cream float or a soda pop.
At times the mayor interrupted the interview to suck on what looked like a fishing float. Times, Sunday Times
FLOATING THROUGH HER ears was the haunting quena flute of Jorge Cumbo, with the South American group Urubamba. Roadside Crosses
Sublime music floats on a scented summer breeze to the spot where you lie.
The independent float of an activity is calculated assuming the worst circumstances.
Some think they are masters of their fate, others believe they are merely passive floaters on the river of fate.
He just seems to float on it. The Sun
Buoyant circles, rings and squiggles float like islands and lena, at times, an amusing semblance of comic-book drawing.
Beyond the shore floated the long canoe, with its curving ends and its emblazonment of the five-pointed stars. Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest
An explanation that I favour for the sinking is that the snort mast float valve jammed open, flooding the boat.

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