Sentence examples for float from inspiring English sources

Float is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use float as a verb, noun, or adjective. Example sentence: The floaty dress moved gracefully in the summer breeze.

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float

noun

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

  • Attach the float and the weight to the fishing line, above the hook.

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A friend, Ahmed, had told him that the best way to float was to turn supine and pretend to be dead.

Budget carrier Wizz Air has revived plans to float on the stock market after abandoning the idea last summer because of volatility in the airline industry.

Join the cognoscenti pensioners who float like crocodiles, covered in salt crystals.

Sir Andrew Witty, GSK's chief executive, said the company would decide by the middle of this year whether to float ViiV.

We always had a float in the parades and we always went to the football and basketball games together and that made college more bearable.

For your local taxpayer-subsidised theatre, low-tech high-return junk such as standup comedy, discredited TV psychics and Abba tribute acts float more worthwhile artists with identifiable skills – dancers, actors, puppeteers and ex-members of the Stranglers doing acoustic tours.

If you are launching your own career as a consultant or a freelancer who will work from home then it will be a relatively straight-forward set-up, but even in this instance you will need to factor in some overheads (a new laptop, marketing materials, website), as well as a financial float to keep you going for a few months in the case of late payments (this will definitely happen).

It's ironic really that it should fall to Carr to tell the actual story, given he was one of the "great men" of politics – a player permitted to float over the top.

The gains come on top of the near £17m handed over to the banks in fees for their advice on the float.

Thousands of small hand-made boats are loaded with offerings to the goddess of the water and left to float off to sea.

There was her dig at Taylor Swift with her reference to "a special place in hell" and her jibe that Gravity was about how George Clooney would "rather float in space than spend a minute with a woman his own age".

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