Sentence examples for floated upon from inspiring English sources
As Joseph Conrad noted in the opening pages of Heart of Darkness, Britain's greatness was floated upon the sea, the arena of its imperial sway.
An oily rainbow sheen floats upon the nearby streams.
His plaited tail brandished high, floats upon the lake.
From the rocky slopes, our bunkhouse looked like a raft floating upon a deep orange sea.
As a city, Venice was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket.
The 20-mile-long spit of land seemed almost to float upon the water.
And instead of watercolour landscapes and ancestral portraits on the walls, there would be an art composed of white circles etched upon white squares floating upon white paper.
When Utzon entered the Opera House competition, he went sailing around Hamlet's castle, Kronborg, at Elsinore, which seems to float upon a promontory similar to the Opera House site.
On the right-hand side of the Molo is the Doges' Palace (Palazzo Ducale), whose crenellated mass appears to float upon the waters of the lagoon.
The mountains are too grand and implausible, and the islands that float upon the waters of the Strait of Georgia are too persistently picturesque.
When aglow at night, it seems to float upon the cityscape, the continents highlighted in green against the dark blue, the motto — "It's in the P-I" — rotating in red letters five and eight feet high.
