Sentence examples for great floating from inspiring English sources

(Just think of the great floating garbage patches at sea).

We own the universe, we mine it, settle it, play in it, build great floating edifices between the stars.

On Friday at 7 p.m. the maritime historian Bill Miller presents an illustrated lecture on the history and culture of the great "floating palaces," as depicted in films like Howard Hawks's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (Friday at 9 p.m. and Sunday at 4 15 p.m).; Leo McCarey's "Love Affair" (Sunday at 12 30 p.m).; and William K. Howard's "Princess Comes Across" (Friday at 1 p.m. and Sunday at 2 30 p.m).

The world beyond their trio is hostile, while the sea is both frightening (it is "a freezing great floating graveyard") and welcoming ("It's just saying how glad it is to see you, it's really missed you!").

In one of the most memorable phrases of the book, Eggers writes: "Her patterned dress was spread out on the surface of the water like a great floating flower".

Then there are the wind and currents, which constantly work on the great floating, constantly changing landscape, grinding ice together, pulling pans apart, sometimes so "rapid as to equal a ship running before the wind", to cite the evocative description of the ancient Norse writer of Kongespeilet.

'The only way to get to the beach is to fly or sail in on a day trip,' says David from his perch on one of the plane's great floats.

Mexico and Brazil had great floats, costumes and dancers but hanging out at Moomba brought home two notions previously considered but now made prominent in our collective conscience: the ascendency of Asia (especially China and India) on the world scene and Australia as the English language gateway to this emerging and soon dominant part of the world.

We also had a great float trip down the Snake River beneath the Tetons.

For some folks, a great swim means floating in a pool and catching some much-needed rays.

Scientists who study the warming seas and complicated climate and ice trends around Antarctica got a big jolt in recent days as yet another great fringing, floating ice shelf jutting from the Antarctic Peninsula began to disintegrate.