How to use floating in a sentence

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• He’s in a better place now, floating free as the clouds above.From the entry above
• Write 0.0 to indicate a floating point number rather than the integer zero.From the entry zero
• There's a rumour floating around the office that Jan is pregnant.From the entry float
• There she was, floating amongst the jetsam, like so much debris.From the entry jetsam
• Under electron microscopy, a few viruses were seen floating near the cells.From the entry virus
• The floating toolbar will snap to the edge of the screen when dragged towards it.From the entry snap
• The IEEE standard for floating point uses signed magnitude for the mantissa.From the entry signed magnitude
• The shoreline was littered with the floating jettison from the wrecked freighter.From the entry jettison
• Try looking in the office: there should be a few pens floating around there.From the entry float around
• The warship was destroyed by floating mines.From the entry mine
• Where's the restroom? My back teeth are floating!From the entry my back teeth are floating
• In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you′ll have to remove the skin floating on top of it.From the entry skin
• “I’ve already granted you usufruct of the dead mackerels floating on the Seine!”2026 [1979], Copi, “The Surprise Party”, in Kit Schluter, transl., City of Rats, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry usufruct
• Then the holopresence I'd been watching, the one represented by the floating word Croyd, interjected.2023, Adam-Troy Castro, War of the Marionettes, JABberwocky Literary Agency, page 122. From the entry holopresence
• This is likely due to their feeding strategy, selecting floating items from the ocean surface.2021, Alice A. Horton, Isobelle Blissett, Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Freshwater Aquatic, Terrestrial and Avian Migratory Species in…. From the entry neustonic
• A floating bog is terrorizing homeowners in a cove on Lake Marie in Antioch.2021 January 1, Richard J. Heggen, Floating Islands: an Activity Book, Richard Heggen. From the entry floating bog
• All land is floating islands, like icebergs of earth, or “earthbergs,” honeycombed with caves.2019, Mike Pritchard, A Player's Guide to Strinrath, page 26. From the entry earthberg
• A dock worker saw him floating against a dock pier and called the police.2017 September 18, E. J. Stauffer, chapter 3, in The Drowning, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry floater
• Local authorities have devoted efforts to regularly clear the floating garbage along the seashore.2017, “Local authorities make efforts to clear floating garbage along seashore in SE China”, in Zhang Dongmiao, editor, Xinhua News Agency. From the entry Huangqi
• Or you might be floating above proposed megaconstructions in a city center.2017, Jaron Lanier, “Be Your Own Pyramidion (About Visual Displays for VR)”, in Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and…. From the entry megaconstruction
• Albumin receptors megalin and cubilin both possess long extracytosolic domain floating in the urinary space.2015 October 15, “Akt Links Insulin Signaling to Albumin Endocytosis in Proximal Tubule Epithelial Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry extracytosolic
• Every staircase had its earl or an honourable, there was even a maharajah floating about the place.2013, Michael Dobbs, A Ghost at the Door. From the entry Brideshead
• Suddenly a vilesome white tome appears floating in the air in front of Lazarus' face.2012, Lonesome Wyatt, The Terrible Tale of Edgar Switchblade. From the entry vilesome
• "I see lots of Osama pics floating on twitter, aint gonna RT any of dem though ..2011 May 2, Chagney Hunt [username], “Ryan Babel”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet). From the entry rt
• I watched the many little yellow balls floating around in the steaming hot oil in the pot.2011, Pearlie Chandra Singh, A Thousand Broken Pieces, page 19. From the entry pholourie
• Instead of a raft floating down the Mississip,' it'll be a clickity clack across the desert.2010, Jerome Peterson, Thumb Flagging, page 162. From the entry clickity
• Claims are made about irreplaceable sagacity supposedly offered by players in Washington’s floating Brahmin crapgame.2008 June 13, “Are Washington Insiders Necessary?”, in New York Times. From the entry crapgame
• The floating island doubles as a place for the children to do their homework and eat meals.2006, Trends Very Best Kitchens & Bathrooms, page 69. From the entry floating island
• Notice that this chord seems to be floating up in the air.2006, Charles Kim, “Suspensions and Bass Runs”, in Teach Yourself Visually Guitar, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry floaty
• Let's get off the floating chopper.” “He's not a dusty head.2004 October 30, Jackson Publick & Doc Hammer, “Return to Spider-Skull Island” (13:17 from the start), in The Venture Bros., season 1…. From the entry hoverbike
• The color occurs to me when I look at the photo, unembodied, floating alongside of it.2001, Rela Mazali, Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings, page 213. From the entry waffled
• They'd beaten the cruel giant, who ended up floating out to sea.1997, Clayton Emery, The Tale of the Campfire Vampires, Aladdin Paperbacks, →ISBN. From the entry pukwudgie
• Park officials may soon supply the lake with floating waste disposal systems.1994, Bruce Berger, There Was a River, Tucson, A.Z.; London: The University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry swimmer
• Surprisingly, kiwi fruit is not everywhere, but full cream milk, with the cream floating on top, is.1991 October 27, Merrill Perlman, “Exploring a World of Glaciers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company…. From the entry kiwi fruit
• The use of timber battens as screeds makes it easy to get the floating coat flat.1991, Robert Matthews, “Plastering”, in Practical House Building: A Manual for the Selfbuilder, Leicester, Leicestershire: Blackberry…. From the entry screed

Meaning of floating

1. adjective That floats or float.
2. adjective Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
3. adjective Present in the underlying phonological representation but not linked to an anchor on which it can surface.

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Questions about floating in a sentence

How do you use floating in a sentence?

Floating is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters.”

What is a short sentence with floating?

“The warship was destroyed by floating mines.”

What does floating mean?

Floating means that floats or float.