levitate
Example Sentences
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I marveled at how the hidden-in-the-floor projections allow the ghost to levitate, but I also increasingly felt a sense of mourning.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
Those droplets constantly off-gas carbon dioxide, causing them to levitate slightly above the surfaces they sit on.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024
His narrator, Richard, is the least shiny of a golden foursome whose youth, beauty and careless wealth allow them to levitate somewhere over Sydney Harbor, happily encased in the champagne bubble of their bottomless self-regard.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024
Planetary scientists think that electrostatic forces generated from this interaction levitate dust or ice above the ring to form the spokes, though after several decades no theory perfectly predicts the spokes.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023
The office of the presidency, as he saw it, was designed to levitate above the party squabbles and transcend partisan versions of the national interest.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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