"float on the sea" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to stay on the surface of the ocean without sinking. Example: The ship's crew members were stranded at sea for days, desperately trying to stay afloat on the rough waters until help arrived.
Built "for war as well as worship," the writer noted, the Mont "seems to float on the sea as gracefully as a ship under full sail, catching all the changing colors of the clouds".
The shrine's architecture is a masterpiece of the shinden style: Poised on vermilion pillars and facing the mainland across the Onoseto Strait, it appears at high tide to float on the sea.
A few eye-catching assertions float on the sea of quotation: Phillips says addiction "is always the ongoing attempt to survive what was experienced as malign mothering" and that "all tragedies are tragedies of obedience".
The first study, published in Geophysical Research Letters by researchers at NASA and the University of California, Irvine, used satellite-borne radar to examine the glaciers, and especially to look at changes in the grounding line, the border between the bits of the glacier that rest on the bedrock and the bits that float on the sea.
On the book's last pages, Florens's mother somehow returns, as a disembodied voice, and recounts her enslavement in Africa ("The men guarding we and selling we are black"), the middle passage in "a house made to float on the sea," her arrival in the hot sun and cane fields of Barbados, and her "breaking in" — her rape — by white men who apologize and give her an orange as consolation.
On the book's last pages, Florens's mother somehow returns, as a disembodied voice, and recounts her enslavement in Africa ("The men guarding we and selling we are black"), the middle passage in "a house made to float on the sea," her arrival in the hot sun and cane fields of Barbados, and her "breaking in"—her rape by white men who apologize and give her an orange as consolation.
Fred Siegel, a professor of history at Cooper Union, frequently criticizes the City Council; he describes it as a body of "largely invisible members who float on the seas of interest groups rather than provide local representation".
Many parts of the Ross and Weddell seas are covered by ice shelves, or ice sheets floating on the sea.
It is best known for its 6th-century shrine, which was built on tidal land and has the appearance of floating on the sea during high tide.
Seabirds are at particular risk because they tend to be attracted to brightly coloured objects floating on the sea surface, which they mistake for food.
