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float

[floht] / floʊt /


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Remember, without the suction and sealing, poop and pee would simply float around the bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

I float amid the hundred-ish attendees, moving from conversation to conversation with various election geeks and wanna-be Josh Lymans.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

Passengers float around in automated chairs, surrounded by screens, food and entertainment.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

In an era of great tenors McCormack alone had the superlative breath control, the honeyed sweetness and the ability to float notes at the top of the register with dulcet ease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

I set aside my thoughts and worries when Carmen begins to show us how to float.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

The line floats in the top margin of a spiral notebook like a signal flare scrawled in pencil.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Some coral species with fast-growing branches are planted onto "coral trees" that look like old television antennas and are suspended in the water column, with floats to keep them upright.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

The floats travelling past me are full of life and music.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Steelhead Beach is a popular starting place for warm-weather floats down the Russian River.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

His laughter floats up and fades into the dark, starry sky.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

Neely clarified that Sanders made the so-called offer while joking around on the show in May and hadn’t actually floated the idea to actual media members.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

It was 14-12 on the hour when, after Saints fly-half Anthony Belleau was sin-binned for a breakdown offence, the ball was floated to the right by Jarrod Evans for Grady to cross.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

One ambitious report published by the think tank floated the radical idea of curbing the credit-card swipe fees enforced at grocery stores.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

One option we floated, because I was baptized Catholic, was the iconic St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

She pulled Churro off the sofa and flipped it over, and up floated Tía Beatriz.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Instead of treating the boundary between grounded and floating ice as a narrow line, researchers accounted for a much broader area where ocean water can reach beneath the glacier.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

The oil from Rosebank would be loaded onto tankers via a gigantic hose and nozzle, which looks like the super-sized pump of an enormous floating filling station.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Tehran had millions of barrels of crude in tankers floating in Asian waters that gave it a steady flow of much-needed cash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Workers used nets fixed to floating pontoons late Wednesday to guide the animal gradually, but it dived beneath a net and returned to the canal overnight, authorities said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

By that time I remembered the limpets floating around in the pail by the doorway.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff


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