Sentence examples similar to float distance from inspiring English sources

The pollen is very fine so that it can float long distances to find -- and pollinate -- females.

In this mode, the virus is carried aloft in tiny droplets that dry out, leaving dust motes, which can float long distances, can remain infective for hours or days, and can be inhaled into the lungs.

Small seeds are dispersed by the winds across the glaciers and whole plants have been known to float great distances on ice (Hultén and Fries 1986; Holderegger and Abbott 2003).

You float a tiny distance above, suspended by the repulsion between atoms.

Nominally, your goals are to build a station that can defend itself against occasional alien attackers, and to investigate the "monoliths" that float in the distance.

The anthrax sent to Mr. Daschle, government officials said, was finely milled so that it would float a considerable distance on the smallest of air currents.

Anxiety grew with the discovery that the anthrax mailed to the Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, was a strain both highly potent and sufficiently refined that it could float a considerable distance through the air.

This rig is set up this way to allow the worm to float up some distance from the sinker in an attempt to attract fish suspended off the bottom.

In water that has icebergs floating in the distance?

Isis's black flags with white insignia floated in the distance.

When al-Haj recalls his time in detention, his speech slows down and his gaze, which had held steady until then, floats in the distance.