Sentence examples similar to road float from inspiring English sources

Some are still at home, lucky to have a house while houses around them, blocks away, are in the road or floating in the bay.

Mr. Keenan said that during one particularly bad storm, he and other workers had watched as a large segment of a damaged road simply floated away.

The driver was going too fast for the road; the cab floated queasily between deep, jarring potholes.

Newcomb likens it to the old Road Runner cartoons, "floating in mid-air like you're Wil E. Coyote".

With a realization date of 2014 the complex will be built on the flooded wetlands of the Netherlands and will feature 60 luxury apartments with parking spaces and even a floating road to access it, plus docks for boats.

Forty-eight firms expressed an interest in leasing the road, after Governor Ed Rendell floated the idea.Unusually, America is catching up with a trend that was pioneered elsewhere in this case as far away as Australia.

No roads, no cars, floating post office.

Unlike previous Avalons, the new model doesn't simply float down the road like an inner tube on a lazy river.

The Road to Mandalay used to float on Germany's Rhine; when it was purchased several years ago by the Orient-Express organization (who renovated it at a cost of around $6 million) it was put into service on the Ayeyarwady.

She grumbles into action, making a fearsome noise, before floating down the road.

It may decide that a bag floating across a road is a solid object and swerve to avoid it.