Sentence examples for float on the ocean from inspiring English sources

Dinoflagellates These tiny marine plankton float on the ocean surface and offer one of the most spectacular displays of mass bioluminescence in nature when vast areas of ocean light up at night.

Scientists cannot yet predict what happens to pollutants that do not float on the ocean surface.

It is sought after because of its rarity and can float on the ocean for years before washing ashore.

Since ice shelves float on the ocean's surface, the calving event wouldn't immediately raise sea levels.

Fixed buoys, which are moored to the sea floor, float on the ocean surface and transmit ocean and weather data.

To some extent the light crust floats on the heavier mantle, as icebergs float on the oceans.

A few blocks away, where the Belle Shores Condominium is under construction, tiny flakes of white Styrofoam floated on the ocean breeze one recent sunny afternoon, thinly coating the neighborhood's lawns and its cats.

A glacier mostly melts beyond its grounding line, where the ice floats on the ocean.

"You just pull the blankets off them, we don't want a bunch of army blankets floating on the ocean.

The Maya believed that 13 heavens were arranged in layers above the earth, which itself rested on the back of a huge crocodile or reptilian monster floating on the ocean.

Scientists continued to doubt Steenstrup's thesis until one day in 1873, when a fisherman off the coast of Newfoundland saw a creature floating on the ocean's surface and struck it with a hook.