set afloat

His cruelties are all but overshadowed by his courage, especially when he and a few adherents are set afloat in the long boat by the mutineers.

The result, whose sale will benefit a local underwater sculpture park, is a pair of faux icebergs — one of which is 20 feet high and 30 feet wide, wrapped in collages of Sven-Olof Lindblad’s photos of actual icebergs, and set afloat in the oceanfront pool of Miami Beach’s Faena Hotel.

Yet pride has its uses, not least as we attempt to relearn what it is to come together again in real life after far too many months spent as disembodied heads set afloat against shimmering Google backgrounds.

Over the summer, scientific consensus has slowly shifted to understand that the virus could be set afloat by speech—or song—and remain in the air long enough to infect those who inhale them.

But owing to the great quantity here, it almost seemed as if the panels were being set afloat as a form of display, as if they were merchandise for sale.