levitate

Example Sentences

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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

It might run through your head as a young girl spreads jam on a piece of bread, or as a multitude of floating, smiling white puffballs, known as warawara, levitate blissfully skyward.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2023

It’s the spell you cast to levitate something.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Then the general raises her hand, and my parents and Uncle Ty levitate off their chairs.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas