Sentence examples for catch a floating from inspiring English sources

2. It's a lot easier to catch a floating snap than a direct one.

In truth, it can't even walk in zero gravity yet, and perhaps its most impressive physical feat to date has been to catch a floating roll of duct-tape.

To reach one of the best spots to see these marvels, you need to catch a float plane to Naknek Lake, the star of this little video.

It is no great surprise, then, that Mr. Erwitt's shutter finger, quick enough to catch a chuckle floating by on the wind, also knows how to arrest the news as it blows past.

Scientists have not yet evaluated the possibility that a hatchling could catch a ride on floating debris and reach the Keys, she said.

Then he quotes from Seamus Heaney's The Given Note, a poem about a fiddler on the Blasket Islands who catches a fairies' tune floating across the air and learns to play it: "He got this air out of the night/ Strange noises were heard/ By others who followed, bits of a tune/ Coming in on loud weather".

And seas critters can catch a ride on pieces of plastic, floating away from warm places to cooler ones, taking up residence where they don't belong.

Log booms were placed on the West Branch Susquehanna River to catch the floating timber; Lock Haven built a boom in 1849, and Williamsport's Susquehanna Boom opened in 1851.

But efforts to catch monopoles floating through the lab or trapped in ancient rock have failed.

If you're still floating like myself, the pace can be disheartening, but it's too late to catch a boat anyhow.

I went on a float trip down the Madison River during the salmon fly hatch and did not catch a fish.