The word "floated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb to describe an action of something moving on or in a liquid without sinking. For example: "The boat floated slowly down the river."
As that drone floated surreally over the Belgrade pitch on 14 October, sparking the extraordinary mayhem that followed on the pitch, it was just the latest incident to make that stance look naive at best and dangerous at worst.
It tells the story of Joe Alston, a retired literary agent who feels that "he has gone downstream like a stick, getting hung up in eddies and getting flushed out again, only half understanding what he floated past, and understanding less with every year.
We sat down in the sun-warmed grass and feasted on peppery sausage, soft sheep's cheese and yeasty bread, while an eagle floated past overhead.
Daniels says he has floated the idea of the president playing not himself, but an ageing former member of a Color Me Badd-style boyband.
I floated silently past all kinds of amazing riverside homes – old manor houses, tiny cottages, boathouses and mysterious creeks, and ogled, like a particularly inquisitive fish, at the secret riches of waterside life.
Ever since he floated the idea during the election campaign of a new right-to-buy scheme aimed at housing association tenants, Cameron has been receiving warnings from the housing industry of the possibility that he will be exacerbating Britain's already acute housing crisis.
McKenna floated the ball high over the head of the Buckie goalkeeper, Kevin Main, for his seventh goal of the season after 18 minutes.
First, Jack Dorsey floated the notion of updating friends on one's whereabouts, while Noah Glass championed it and gave the application its name, then Biz Stone was asked to help with building the program by a still-reluctant Evan Williams.
Within seven years is floated on the stock market at a value of $34.7bn – more than most of the companies in the S&P 500.
In 1960, after the departures of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants left the massive New York baseball fanbase with only the Yankees, former Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey and some powerful rich friends floated the idea of a third major league, the Continental League.
Victorian senator Ricky Muir has requested modelling from the government about the impact of a plan initially floated by the Australian Council for Social Service, to maintain payments until the youngest child turns 12, instead of the current cut-off of 16, and also to test the impact of gradually removing payments from the time a child turns six, rather than immediately cutting them off.
