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Floating in sentence

560 examples of Floating in a sentence

Muhammad did not come floating off the mountain as though walking on air.
Then you can flip through this book while highlighting the lines, words on the virtual touch pad below each floating window.
The number of people living in countries not their own now comes to 220 million, and that's an almost unimaginable number, but it means that if you took the whole population of Canada and the whole population of Australia and then the whole population of Australia again and the whole population of Canada again and doubled that number, you would still have fewer people than belong to this great floating tribe.
We protected bikers by floating parking lanes, and it's been great.
And when the arm disappears, the bonus is, the pain disappears because you can't have disembodied pain floating out there, in space.
They were floating through the canals in a large canoe with a fitted-out generator for all of the community to enjoy.
What originally brought me to Makoko was this project from a friend of mine, Kunlé Adeyemi, who recently finished building this three-story floating school for the kids in Makoko.
With this entire village existing on the water, public space is very limited, so now that the school is finished, the ground floor is a playground for the kids, but when classes are out, the platform is just like a town square, where the fishermen mend their nets and floating shopkeepers dock their boats.
This is a floating, multispan suspension bridge.
We've had floating bridges before, but nothing like this.
And all this past year in training, I had that Teddy Roosevelt quote to paraphrase it, floating around in my brain.
And it's all about the social network of the knowledge, floating around.
This one disguises itself as floating algae.
Not great odds, so it's a really interesting day when you wake up at the Kennedy Space Center and you're going to go to space that day because you realize by the end of the day you're either going to be floating effortlessly, gloriously in space, or you'll be dead.
Now if you've ever seen or even heard about fireflies, then you'll know how magically they can transform our everyday landscape into something ethereal and otherworldly, and this happens around the globe, like this hillside in the Smoky Mountains that I saw transformed into a living cascade of light by the eerie glows of these blue ghost fireflies, or a roadside river that I visited in Japan as it was giving birth to the slow, floating flashes of these Genji fireflies, or in Malaysia, the mangrove trees that I watched blossom nightly not with flowers but with the lights of a thousand — (Bleep!
It's a mystery how the stars in the outer ring are just floating there in such an orderly manner.
We are floating here on this floating hotel, on one of the largest rivers on Earth, the Negro River.
It's a bit dry and rough, but we are floating here, and there is this invisible river running above us.
Even people took off their jewelry, their little crosses and religious things, and put them in these floating balls that we sent down the rivers so that they could be picked up at night.
You’ve broken into NIM’s secret lab, and now you’re floating in a raft on top of 25 stories of electrified water.
Our boat was floating like a matchbox on the water without any control.
An enraged Charles Stewart then hired slave catchers to canvass the city of London, find him, bring him not back to Charles Stewart, but to a ship, the Ann and Mary, that was floating in London Harbour, and he was chained to the deck, and the ship was to set sail for Jamaica where James was to be sold in the slave markets and be doomed to the three to five years of life that a slave had harvesting sugar cane in Jamaica.
Now, I knew this place had a reputation for sinking ships and grounding planes, and while I was out there floating, I started to get a little bit nervous.
And from the building in the back, you see it as an iceberg floating by in the hills.
But on the other hand, given all this organic dust that's floating around, we could have lots of friends out there.
Our universe may be contained within one such brane, floating in an unknown higher dimensional place, playfully named “the bulk,” or hyperspace.
And as a musician and composer, when I hear that word, something like this is floating through my mind.
But unlike Gitmo they exist right here, at home, floating within larger federal prisons.
So we see the plastic pieces floating slowly through the sensor, and the computer on board will process this image, and measure the size of each particle, so we have a rough estimate of how much plastic there is in the water.
Ultimately, they will often look to settle in a patch of flotsam, preferably a patch of floating seaweed.
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