Sentence examples for and float off from inspiring English sources

I'm surprised it doesn't list to the right and float off into the Atlantic.

The other factories face a highly uncertain future under plans to wind up the state agency and float off its profitable parts or sell them to commercial operators.

Let's turn off Boris's oxygen of publicity (Front page, 22 February) and feed him hydrogen instead, in the hope he'd inflate and float off.

Usually, though, when filmmakers don't use real basketball players, they mysteriously become unmoored from the reality of the game and float off into a cinematic Palookaville.

"I'm saddened by all this stuff about separation," Mackay says, "as if we're going to take a chainsaw down the country and float off somewhere.

However, things which are holding on to the Earth would eventually have problems too -- the Earth itself would most likely break apart into chunks and float off into space, since it is only held together by gravity also!

In spring, shore-fast ice routinely breaks and floats off.

MINERVA was not captured by the asteroid's gravity and floated off into space.

He described how everything of value, from cars to refrigerators, was leaping into boxes and floating off to Europe.

But instead of joining the straight and narrow, during the wedding party he capsizes a rowing boat and floats off.

Her most daring effort involved making a flotation device from a Styrofoam cooler and floating off down the river, towards possible starvation or death by anaconda.