Sentence examples for narrow floating from inspiring English sources

This bending stress is enhanced in the case of glacier tongues (long narrow floating ice shelves produced by fast-flowing glaciers that protrude far into the ocean).

On a recent Monday morning at a cavernous design studio here, a quintet of colorful, uncategorizable creatures — or, at least, a group of people dressed to look like them — were being instructed on how to stand atop a long, narrow float that will soon make its maiden voyage in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Sometimes, as with Wipro, there's a narrow float.

"I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and the summits".

In an interview today, a Sochi rescue worker who was among the first on the scene -- a long and narrow stream of floating debris -- said his crew was mystified by a long metal object floating vertically in the water, which he displayed on videotape.

Later Messner described his experience of being on the summit in a now famous quotation: 'I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits'.

The dessert trolley gets stuck in narrow passages, causing the floating islands to bob furiously.

On cobbled Narrow Quay, overlooking the floating harbour, it was built as a motel in 1966 (the adjoining carpark is Grade II-listed, thanks to a bit of classic honeycomb concrete).

ROWING FOR HISTORY -- You can watch or help row one of eight Whitehall boat replicas to be launched on Saturday in "Floating the Narrows," a commemoration of the British attack on George Washington's troops in 1776.

It included animal logging, manual loading and grading and extraction of logs along special roads and narrow-gauge railways and floating.

We're just floating in that narrow world, and letting it happen".