Sentence examples for floated open from inspiring English sources

Water gourds—half gourds floated open side down in a pan of water and struck rhythmically with small sticks—are played in western Africa; in Benin their chief use is at funeral rites.

"We wanted to make it transparent, make it float, open up as many surfaces as possible". The architects tried to honor the center's original weighty aesthetic even as they updated it.

Letting it float opens it to speculative attacks and destabilising inflows of hot money.

In summer, music floats from open windows: Vivaldi, Mozart, Bach.

The lights came up on a box seeming to float, its open side facing the audience.

Inside, the house is more contemporary: bleached beech floors, floating walls, open spaces.

The paper described a whale surveillance flight over Alaska's Beaufort Sea in 2004, during which they spotted four polar bear carcasses floating in open water far from land or the receding ice pack.

A building on a coastal luxury resort, once with enviable ocean views, is now partially floating over open air as rocks and mud crumbled under one corner and fell into the sea.

The fish are often tightly packed into netted mesh pens floating in open water, allowing disease to spread quickly.

Not only, then, do floating turbines open up possibilities for wind generation in new places, but they hold some advantages over their fixed counterparts.

Monnett and Gleason had observed four dead bears floating in open water in 2004, a phenomenon never before seen despite 16 years of observations, and concluded that they had drowned.