Sentence examples for a float in a from inspiring English sources

The compass consists of a set of steel needles with a compass card, attached to a float, in a bowl of water and alcohol.

In April a float in a Sikh parade in Surrey, a Vancouver suburb, included in a display of Sikh martyrs and saints a photograph of Talwinder Parmar, the assumed mastermind (now dead) of the Air India attack.

In a vignette, a young man prone on a float in a pool notices on his BlackBerry Z10 that "free gig tickets" are being offered online by his favorite band.

As in the director Francis Veber's last film, "The Dinner Game," one absurd lie begets another, and before long, the straight antiheroic milquetoast finds himself riding a float in a gay-pride parade and wearing a condom cap.

Perhaps because there is nothing quite as tedious as a man describing the nuanced notes of hops, the Scots go to macho extremes, including brewing a Colonial-style ale with corn, molasses and elements distilled from a copy of the Declaration of Independence, while atop a float in a Fourth of July parade in Pottstown, Pa.

I rode on a float in a Mardi Gras parade last year.

A precisely balanced hollow copper sphere (a) floats in a copper-lined tank (b) filled with distilled water (c).

One year, the board had a float in the Winter Carnival, featuring a clothesline with underwear hanging on it.

They all float in a foggy dream world behind a scrim.

3. Rest in this space for a while; float in it like a warm, soothing pool.

A butterfly breaks through a glass case; mountain goats float in a lake; a girl's fingers trail across a fogged window.