How To Use Floating In A Sentence

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
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.
There were floating candles that decorated the pool and the fountain, as well as ornamental flowers arrangements.
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

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I can't find my purse, but it must be floating around here somewhere.
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.
They cannot fly or dive yet and they spend the next few weeks just floating about. Times, Sunday Times
The swimming pool was decorated with fairy lights and floating candles and a table for the intimate party of 12 was set outside.
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
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.
Once again, he was incorporeal, a mere awareness floating in space. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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
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
The number of sums that a computer can handle is measured by 'flops' (floating-point operations per second). Times, Sunday Times
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.
Ocker Hill Power Station with two prominent chimneys, a sewage works and a canal surface with oil and floating debris.
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
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.
Needless to say there's more than a few class action lawsuits floating about at the moment.
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
Tankers have to use floating hoses to connect with a single buoy mooring, which channel oil through subsea hoses to the pipelines.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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
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
Floating clouds of colour spun and drifted. Times, Sunday Times
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.
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
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.
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.
She spent the afternoon floating on her back in the pool.
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.
The Sargasso sea , a free-floating mass of sea weed mostly S.
In a floating - point representation , the numeral that represents the expon ent.
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.
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 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.
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.
Floating above all the ripe red berries is a whiff of wood smoke. Times, Sunday Times
You get into a situation, you have a bunch of ideas floating around, and you want to make a movie.
FLOATING THROUGH HER ears was the haunting quena flute of Jorge Cumbo, with the South American group Urubamba. Roadside Crosses
These jokers that have been floating around these boardrooms, they waddle off to their next cup of tea or whatever and that's it.
I was happy to sit and look at the stuff floating around me; the minute translucent jellyfish, ctenophores and arrowfish.
Flot, derived from the French _flottant_, floating; and jet, from the verb _jeter_, to _throw up_; both used in seignoral rights, granted by kings to favourites, empowering them to take possession of the property of any man who might happen to be unfortunate, which was in those times tantamount to being guilty. Newton Forster The Merchant Service
As his eye gives the impression of floating over the landscape, his liking for gouache over a pastel ground give what David Britton calls ‘an ethereal quality, where translucent layers of colour float over a solid base’.
The units are configured with 22-in. coulters in front, followed by a row cleaner, tillage/fertilizer knife and independently floating, 18-in. berm-building discs.
The man in the shop, perhaps, is in the baked ‘jemmy’ line, or the fire – wood and hearth – stone line, or any other line which requires a floating capital of eighteen – pence or thereabouts: and he and his family live in the shop, and the small back parlour behind it. Sketches by Boz
At the center of the maneuvers is the USS George Washington, a floating fortress that can carry up to 70 aircraft and more than 5,000 sailors and aviators. US, South Korean Ships Drop Anti-Sub Bombs In Drills
Crystallisation Crystallisation is the term used to describe the process by which a floating charge is converted into a normal fixed charge.
The water shifted above a quake does not move across the ocean, i.e. a log floating at the surface above the epicentre would not have been carried to Thailand or Somalia.
It took the opening credits of Roger Vadim's 1968 sci-fi send-up Barbarella -- a naked Jane Fonda floating in space to the accompaniment of the oh-so-'60s theme song "Barbarella, psychedella/There's a kind of cockle shell about you" -- to convince us otherwise. Michael Sigman: Memories of a Great Friend
He spent much of his time mediating disputes and absorbing the free-floating rage that the Standing had unleashed.
It is not enough if you just live life as it comes to you like a floating leaf in a pond. Make use of the powers bestowed in you and soar like an eagle. Stephen Richards
The other piece is floating southwards in a nonchalant manner. The Times Literary Supplement
Barnes found that the amount of garbage, particularly plastic, floating in the ocean has enabled travel by marine species to roughly double in the subtropics and more than triple at high latitudes.
Sonia, all floating swan's-down and stephanotis, beamed at everyone. TICKLED PINK
Instead of being creamy with chewy bits, it was just sloshy with pieces of fruit floating in it.
It was just the latest in a long arc of confrontations between the consanguine of the South Pacific mote, and floating weeds that forever wash onto these shores. Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part I of II)
The boats are actually floating five-star hotels and make stopovers at historical spots up the river.
Familiar river scenes are shown as the boat ride progresses, such as a cow carcass floating in the river, the renowned cremation ghats and locals, as well as pilgrims, performing ritual ablutions.
He saw the buoy floating above the Inchcape Rock.
On either side of it, the city seemed to give way entirely for the airway; it hung, suspended, like a floating river cutting through a steep, shining landscape.
The present system of managed floating does contain the possibility of direct conflict if official intervention is carried out at cross-purposes.
There were more bubbles floating in the night air than fans in the stands. The Sun
Cox will be floating in rarified air tonight as manager of the National League Cox, Braves say it's good to be home
The shackles of my physical body had faded away and instead I was free and floating above it, surrounded by a bright white light. The Sun
In about 4-5 minutes, these "gole" will start floating. Golyanchi Amti - Malvani Kofta Curry
A new course brings chaos from the off, with two tough new challenges involving floating tiles and spinning hoops. The Sun
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
The light vapour floating around the surface so cooled is condensed upon it, and there accumulates to form the little pearly globe which we call a dew-drop. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
To light their homes, early Americans relied on tallow candles, floating tapers that burned assorted greases, and lamps that burned fuels such as lard and turpentine.
If you recall, run-of-the-mill DSPs typically store numbers as a floating-point, 24-bit mantissa and an 8-bit exponent.
Instead of floating about in graceful attitudes, with the "amber dropping hair" of Milton's Sabrina, they "larked" like a school of porpoises, splashing each other and playing tricks. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story
The bottom level below the bluffs along the riverside is the seat of the river shipping business, and has as well the usual fringe of low quarters; it is paved, and there is a broad public landing fronted by floating docks, wharf-boats, etc. The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado
Lacking foothills, it appears to shoot straight up into the sky, its jagged granite peaks floating above the clouds.
Like an actors mask, the simple lullaby hides the true identity of 'Take Care' that, once revealed, shows an untouched depth to the human condition: "I'll take care of you, it's true" is drummed sweetly into you like honeying drones floating you into your dreams. The Line Of Best Fit
It is a poster of a Chagall painting of a floating wedding couple, with a goat as company.
I will never forget her exquisite bourree en arriere - the floating quality of her run backwards on her pointes - and the shock when for lack of stage depth she hit the scenery against the back wall and fell. Canada's Artistic Boom II
A 740-foot cargo ship was disabled and floating adrift in high winds about 540 miles southwest of Adak on Sunday. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: December 21, 2009
The example NTT uses is a wine store where the prices of the various cuvées on offer are arranged as items floating in space, the cheapest bottles closest to the viewer and the most expensive further away, and spread from left to right by type.
There's even a very basic tortilla soup, which is little more than a stout chicken broth floating with softened tortilla strips.
Enzo Barretta, owner of Ottava Isola, or "Eighth Island," a floating barge with sand on the floor and gourmet food, will pick you up directly from your boat to dine at his restaurant. The Subdued Side of Sardinia
He's been floating the one term gig since he got the nomination. Election Central Sunday Roundup
Other concepts include wind and submarine cars with the latter docking onto floating pontoons.
Alsonte was floating down a river of memories, twisting and winding.
So perhaps before we indulge ourselves in a ritual sneer at those luckless rich, with their empty life of floating purgatory, we should look a little harder at ourselves and our own view of the outside world.
Throughout, there is a feeling that ideas are floating about in the same way that the characters do.
They carefully engaged themselves into it, floating in a tight formation.
Readers will recognize the Ktesibios floating valve as the predecessor to the floating ball in the upper chamber of the porcelain throne.
As he headed down the fairway, revelling in his skillful shot, he noticed something floating on the surface of the pond.
Then her soul took the form of a sheldrake and its mate, -- those loving birds which, like the turtle-dove, are always constant, -- and floating on the liquid pools, they mourned all day long the sad fate of the Princess Pepperina. Tales of the Punjab
Here's one bit of news chez Juliette - I've finally struggled back into my swimming cozzie, stuck on my goggles, and plunged back into the cold and dispiriting pool of online dating - only to immediately come face to face with three drowned wasps and a floating condom. Dater Archives
The propulsors kicked in and the craft was suddenly floating on a large pocket of air.
I am wondering if all of that bowing is going to disturb all of the botox Pelosi has floating around in her face. The etiquette of bowing « Dating Jesus
It was monkfish liver served as a pâté and, floating on top of it, a froth of soy foam.
Further, with a chunk of the floating population in the city being rural people, it is just impossible to expect them to follow road rules strictly.
The sixteen digit strings were converted to floating point losing the last digit of precision so all numbers ended in zero.
His magnificent grey velvet suit seemed to be floating aimlessly in a raging sea, as if petrified in the expectation of waking.
The Spring Festival is the biggest festival for family reunions, drawing many of the floating population and workers to their homes in other provinces.
Both implants had ruptured, leaving her with silicone floating around her body. The Sun
Galaxies and nebulae are often enormous spirals floating in outer space.
Many unusual sensations may occur: perceptions of light are common along with a feeling of floating or lightness in the limbs.
A fragile little thing floating softly through a cruel and callous world. Times, Sunday Times
They cannot fly or dive yet and they spend the next few weeks just floating about. Times, Sunday Times
I was in the Ralembergs' garden where something black and white was floating in the small carp pond.
The dayboat regularly brings trainee-divers out to the larger vessel, which acts as a floating dive centre.
Blood from Forster's broken body was floating away in clouds, finally swirling in a whirlpool above the drain.
This is a flake of bone or cartilage floating around the joint - maybe you also damaged your knee when you injured your foot. The Sun
Because of its mutable, unstable, and floating quality, eroticism often turns up in places where it might be assumed to have been completely eradicated.
They had been on the Foundation's floating headquarters when a supervillain called Basilisk had attacked.
Consequently, nations with free-floating currencies will continue to lose competitiveness against some of the world's largest exporters and their respective imbalances will grow accordingly.
Have you heard the rumor floating about that the shop is going to close?
From the house came an odor of rot, floating atop a sour wave of hurdy-gurdy music. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
Last winter my search for a master recipe that would work in my kitchen resulted in many lost afternoons ending with half-raw rice floating in sad pools of gray milk or embedded in caramelized rubber. Northern Comfort
In his individuated free-floating imagery that defines his iconography, he is rooted in the social and cultural matrix.
The cells would break off and could be seen floating in suspension in the tissue culture medium.
The result of regression shows that value of listed companies is positively correlated with asset and liability rate and yield of asset, and is negatively correlated with the ration of floating stock.
Then he returned home to find his Sandringham Street shop windows steamed up, water coming through the ceiling and stock floating across the floor.
I was happily floating around to different groups all night, talking, chit-chatting, catching up with some old faces and taking silly pictures.
We saw hundreds, down to the detail of their banded beaks, as we coursed through the rafts of birds floating, I assume for comfort, till they comically bodysurfed and dived out of our way.
A couple of hot rumors have been floating about involving Golden State.
As of May 2007, the partners involved agreed that UBC food service would avoid: shrimp products that were not from local trap fisheries, wild bivalve shellfishes and non-native farmed species, snapper or rockfish, tuna caught via long-line fishing, rainbow trout and steelhead reared in net pens or floating cages, swordfish, monkfish, and sevruga caviar. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
The term float stands for floating-point (which just means that the decimal point can "float" to any position in the number). Flex.org - Rich Internet Application Development
The President has ruled out floating his country's currency.
The man, stripped of clothes, is floating near a patch of reeds.
For the rest of us, floating is a wonderful way to relax, which quiets the mind and soothes the body.
My Mossberg 300 win/mag with a black synthetic skeleton stock with a floating barrell is the best there is! Fun Guns
Tension headaches, dry mouth, pounding pulse, neck and back pain, free-floating anxiety, hives, indigestion, irritability and fatigue are all indicators of stress.
The waif is a pennoned pole, two or three of which are carried by every boat; and which, when additional game is at hand, are inserted upright into the floating body of a dead whale, both to mark its place on the sea, and also as token of prior possession, should the boats of any other ship draw near. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense
You can choose either a fixed or floating interest rate for the loan.
May opt for application of fixed or floating interest rate.
My son hasn't been able to find a steady job. He's been floating about for the past year.
We were high-tech seasick in a bad way, cranky and touchy, and nobody could tell us what we would find in the bowels of the floating city. VITALS
Letto platform bed from designer Daniele Lago gives the illusion that the bed is floating in the air. No need for bed frames.
Some of the attachments will be removed today in Portsmouth Harbour, then Swan will sail out into the Solent and dock down, refloating the destroyer as the final lashings are removed.
The last time I visited Strathbeg, I counted eighty elegant swans, floating galleon-like on calm waters.
It follows that the charge over the book and other debts was a floating charge until it crystallised on that date.
Next comes the Living River Trail, starting with a trout pool populated by fish, serenely floating wood ducks, turtles and other peskier species such as "giant toe biters" (water bugs). Where the Wild Things Are
So a single fluorescent tube will be adequate, and if you have used floating plants, so much the better.
The town was snow-covered, too, and the frozen river, and wherever one went, the air was full of the gay jingle-jangle of countless sleighbells, while the streets were thronged with a motley collection of equipages, from the luxuriously upholstered double sleigh with its swaying robes and floating plumes, down to the shapeless home-made "pung" with its ragged, unlined buffalo skin snugly tucked in about the shawled and veiled grandma, who smilingly awaited her good man while he purchased the week's supply of groceries. Half a Dozen Girls
Have you heard the rumor floating about that the shop is going to close?
One of our group had reeled in a length of free-floating fishing line to find it attached to a thrashing barracuda.
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
Values are reserved for representing simple data types such as integers and floating-point values.
Just as in the mythic prehistoric stage of many nations there is a body of legendary matter, which often reappears in somewhat different form, so there is a floating plankton-like mass of tradition and storiology that seems to attach to eminence wherever it emerges and is repeated over and over again, concerning the youth of men who later achieve distinction, which biographers often incorporate and attach to the time, place, and person of their heroes. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
Floating on the top is a pear crisp, so sweet and delectable you might wonder why anyone ever bothered making chips from potatoes.
Located in the Vendée, it is the definition of fairytale, with "floating" towers on the corners of the chateau and flamboyant interiors featuring unicorn taxidermy and chandeliers. Nouveau riches: what's new in France
During a 30-hour river closure, winch wires were being secured to both banks of the river and used to tow the floating pontoon on which the bridge rested.
Like many pregnant women, she is distilling all of society's free-floating anxiety about exposure to toxic chemicals into nine months of serious worrying.
There should be some envelopes floating around somewhere.
Silvery fish with scales like pearls and translucent blue fins like moonlight swam through the clear, cold water, hiding underneath duckweed and water-flowers floating above the pond's surface.
Sit on the terrace and you might as well be floating with the river birds. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, each celebration involves colorful garb - from tasseled dashikis floating down South Street during Odunde to the embroidered silk robes worn on Chinese New Year.
Dr. Webb is correct; the first computer with hardware for floating-point arithmetic was the IBM 704, a vacuum-tube and punchcard machine from the 1950s.
‘Greetings from the Nevada Test Site,’ it proclaimed, showing a collage of doomsday clouds floating above a scraggly desert.
There were two gendarmes on bicycles who were liaison agents and a small floating population of chauffeurs and maquisards undertaking various duties.
Its surface temperature is hot enough to melt lead, and it rains sulphuric acid, but US scientists think there might yet be life on Venus, floating in its sulphurous clouds.
The only way to get the large swine into the boat without capsizing the craft was to build a makeshift floating ramp on the spot.
A friend met me at the Ocean River Sports dock at noon; 30 minutes later, we crossed the runway and bee-lined for Fisherman's Wharf, a klatch of pastel-colored houseboats and floating restaurants on the edge of the Inner Harbour. Victoria, By Sea
Others who could not swim managed to reach the floating rafts. Times, Sunday Times
A large lump of floating bread flake fished in conjunction with a controller float was the successful method.
Others are like floating palaces. The Sun
I made an appointment with him and was shown it floating in a jar of clean unguent. Locust Valley Breakdown
He was the cook from a mine -- strange, the way we met cooks, floating around loose in a world that seems to be growing gradually cookless. Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains

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