Sentence examples for was left floating from inspiring English sources

No one was killed on that occasion, but the balloon hit a boat and was left floating on the river.

Although peace returned to my life, a great deal of guilt was left floating in the air, and I didn't know whom else I could attach it to.

No one was killed, but the balloon hit a boat and was left floating on the river with passengers reporting bruising.

In November, Elian's mother and 10 others drowned in a failed ocean crossing from Cuba, and the boy was left floating alone in an inner tube off the Florida coast.

A string of lights turned on in front of my ship, which began accelerating faster and faster until, suddenly, it emerged from the side of an enormous capital ship (which I could see if I craned my neck behind me), and I was left floating in the calmness of space.

One solitary remark from the foreman was left floating in the air: "How in hell did that dope get the idea that tan was the same color as blue?" View Article By Miranda Carter By Jia Tolentino By Amos Barshad By Emily Nussbaum.

And the oars, she said, are to be left floating in the water for stability.

"Space Oddity" is about astronaut Major Tom being left floating through space forever, so we can understand his concern.

Hundreds of fish were left floating dead in the Danube River today after a cyanide spill from a Romanian gold smelter polluted Europe's largest waterway.

At the French cultural center, where looters burst water pipes and flooded the ground floor, books were left floating in the reading rooms and corridors, and a photograph of Jacques Chirac, the French president, was smashed.

Fifty-one years later, four Cubans trying to reach Key West, Fla., in a small fishing boat were left floating helplessly in the Gulf Stream after their engine died.