Sentence examples for instead of floating from inspiring English sources

But the sound was dull and dry, flopping down in front of your ears instead of floating around them.

Instead of floating on water, his boats drift in pools of paint, reflecting back a minimum of captivating visual clues.

With a coal gasifier, it is far easier to extract greenhouse emissions, so that they can be stored or reused, instead of floating into the atmosphere.

The leaves extend, in the Asian species, as much as 2 m (6.5 feet) above the water instead of floating on it.

Instead of floating up to second, Villa were left treading water in fourth – the only consolation that their advantage over Arsenal remained at five points.

She's a gamine in touch with her sexuality instead of floating slightly above it; unlike Hepburn, she's an angel whose feet touch the ground.

It's not rendering perfectly edge to edge, mind you, instead sort of floating in the middle — but it's still tracking this featureless piece of piece of paper remarkably well as they wave it around our office, crappy overhead fluorescent lights and all.

The fake life jackets sold in Izmir that make a person sink instead of float.

Next all air is removed from the bag, so that upon being frozen and subsequently dipped into the boiling water, it will submerge, instead of float.

For a practical implementation perspective, using fixed-point arithmetic instead of floating-point reduces significantly implementation costs in terms of area occupation and energy consumption.

We are the world's only sci-fi parade krewe and the only one in New Orleans with these types of specialized "contraptions" (the customized vehicles that are driven, rolled, pushed or pulled through the parade instead of floats).