Sentence examples for float lightly from inspiring English sources

Many of her songs float lightly on dark currents — if you scan her compositions from the past fifty years, you'll find plenty of dying children, abandoned women, and paralyzing poverty dished up in catchy tunes and warbling tones.

And a sense of cultural inquiry floats, lightly, over all.

She floats lightly over the soft notes and reaches up to a stringent wail towards the middle of the song.

Here is Mr. Callahan's baritone voice, floating lightly in middle range and making quick and confident deep dives, putting strange bends on a phrase.

Mr. Orr's former masters at La Grenouille would beam in approval at his quenelles, the merest puffs of pike mousse floating lightly in an almost obscenely voluptuous crayfish sauce.

Bassist Ayse Hassan and drummer Fay Milton join Thompson, swiftly followed by A Dead Forest Index – Sam Sherry sits at a harmonium and brother, Adam, hunches over his guitar, his voice floating lightly over a typically haunting soundscape.

Or float some lightly steamed oysters on top of a creamy leek and potato soup.

Great distance runners are graceful: they float, landing lightly on their toes and snapping their calves back so that their heels almost touch the tops of their hamstrings.

Ziff's scholarship may float as lightly as a good silk scarf, but "Return Passages" still manages to hit every important issue that the study of travel literature has raised.

She would like to think that she had, that she had kept her wits about her and laughed, kept things floating along lightly, the encounter accidental and jolly.

But moscato d'Asti begs for July, August and September on the patio, especially a version from Michele Chiarlo that floats as lightly as its name, Nivole, which means "clouds" in Piedmontese dialect.