Sentence examples for act as floating from inspiring English sources

Electronic microcontrollers at the base of the tubes release tiny air bubbles; as they rise through the water, the bubbles act as floating pixels, forming a fuzzy and dynamic image that presents textual information.

Head north out of Bergen on the E39, and soon you'll be rolling your bike on and off the ferries that act as floating bridges across the myriad fjords.

I bet you never thought that one of the duties of a Foreign Minister is to act as an arms dealer for private companies to dodgy governments, or that Royal Navy warships act as floating sales offices for arms-deals.

The results, reported in today's Science, suggest that these gentle whirlpools may act as "floating oases" of important minerals and tiny life-forms from the abyss.

Moreover, 123 samples were collected from hot (103 samples) and cold (20 samples) WDS, 2 samples from air conditioning systems and 8 samples from spa pools of the 10 cruise ships that acted as floating hotels at the Piraeus harbour during the Olympic Games in August 2004.

In this paper, we demonstrate the fabrication processes and electrical characteristics of flexible nonvolatile memory devices based on bottom-gate ZnO TFTs consisting of transparent floating gate transistors that incorporate Al NPs which act as the floating gate layers in the gate dielectric.

When they reached it they chained 3 oil drums to its back and side to act as floats.

The English critic Hilaire Belloc compared epic poems to fishermen's nets: not all of Homer's or Milton's lines could be lighter than air, but there had to be enough wonderful passages to act as floats for the whole.

Cost: £59 Colours: Chestnut, forest green, maroon, rust Ortlieb Back Roller Classic My feeling is you could immerse these panniers in a mountain river and not only would your stuff stay dry, but the bags would probably act as floats, saving you from the icy current.* Ortleib is great at sturdy, practical bags.

The Eisenhower Administration subsequently did just about everything it could to promote nuclear energy; in 1955, the President went so far as to propose that the United States build a reactor-powered ship that would cruise around the world and act as a floating P.R. campaign.

The other film is about the Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic, following a cardiothoracic surgeon who is raising money to build a boat to act as a floating hospital.