Sentence examples for ship float from inspiring English sources

FRANKFURT — Can a ship float and be underwater at the same time?

A carved plywood ship floats on a sea of dollar bills within a waterless aquarium.

As the ship floats adrift off the coast of Mexico, military helicopters are ferrying in emergency shipments of food and supplies.

A 30,000-horsepower engine on a ship floating above the well will shoot the liquids, known in the oil business as drilling mud.

It is, you may think, exactly such calculating practicality that is keeping the Tory ship floating long after its engine has died.

Alice, the protagonist of "Safe Passage," shares the deck of a cruise ship floating in a limbo somewhere at the edge of consciousness with dozens of other grandmothers and their memories.

Not so for the sailors and engineers on the hulking ship floating above him: almost all of them had traveled from Italy in the fall to stretch several miles of power cables beneath the river between Midtown Manhattan and New Jersey.

Then on 8 April 2016, after four failures during the past year, the company landed a reusable rocket on a drone ship floating in the Atlantic ocean, the first ever landing at sea.

A 30,000 horsepower engine on a ship floating above the well is pressure-pouring heavy liquids known in the oil business as "drilling mud" or "kill mud" down through drill pipes and hoses attached to the five-story-high blowout preventer sitting on top of the well.

After two days of trying to gradually close the four vents on the capping device, engineers on Sunday decided to keep some open when they realized that more oil was being captured than could be processed on a drill ship floating in the gulf above.

A U-tube water tank is designed to roll a ship floating on a still water.