How to Use floating in a Sentence

floating

adjective

• The floating dock had been clamped onto the top of a groin wall.
  — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2019
• The future of the Maldives could also come in the form of a floating city.
  — Daniel Manzo, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2021
• The sector obtained funding and built a 16-foot-tall floating fence across 12 miles of the dunes.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2020
• The fireworks were being shot from a floating pier, Hart said.
  — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 5 July 2017
• West used a floating stage on his recent Saint Pablo Tour.
  — Tracy Swartz, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• The ship was said to be a floating base for Iranian forces engaged in Yemen's war.
  — Conor Finnegan, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2021
• The floating parks are then anchored with bungee cords that work as shock absorbers to keep the playgrounds steady.
  — Jenae Sitzes, Country Living, 10 Feb. 2017
• Now, this tourist hot spot in the United Arab Emirates will soon be home to a first-of-its-kind floating resort.
  — Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 8 Dec. 2021
• The wow factor begins right through the front door, past the floating staircase and into the huge open-concept great room.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• And in May, the company launched a pilot of its free-floating bike service, called Jump.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 11 June 2019
• Is there an architect who would turn down the chance to build a floating stadium?
  — Josh Kramer, The Atlantic, 12 July 2017
• The floating device appeared to be drifting away in the water behind his home.
  — Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2018
• The effect is of a floating point of view that narrows and widens, both deeply rendered and impossible to pin down.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2021
• The AvoSeedo is a small, floating bowl with an open middle, so the pit stays sufficiently wet at all times.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 21 Feb. 2019
• Six steel pilings, each 16 inches across, would support the floating dock.
  — Alex Demarban, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Sep. 2017
• In the floating world, Denver is fast becoming a popular place to find that nowhere.
  — Dylan Owens, The Know, 10 Feb. 2017
• Instead, for about a tenth of that price, Hunt bought the Esso Japan and retrofitted it as a floating storage-and-off-loading unit.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The body of a woman was found floating Wednesday afternoon in a body of water near Dog River.
  — Christopher Harress | [e-mail], al.com, 26 June 2019
• Police spotted a floating casino that came unmoored and hit a bridge.
  — Melinda Deslatte, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• When ushered back into the pool at a Cologne zoo, the seals entered a dome measuring 15 feet across, its rim resting on a floating ring.
  — New York Times, 29 July 2021
• On June 9, the ship then transferred its cargo at sea to a floating storage ship, the Harmony Star, off the coast of Malaysia, satellite images show.
  — Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2022
• The haunting image features a floating figure in a black cape, face hidden by a white mask with markings.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 7 Jan. 2022
• That neighbor called the cops on the floating figure, forcing the Appel family to shut down their display.
  — al, 7 Oct. 2022
• The smooth, massive, floating-drive style of the El Dorado more than made up for any inconvenience.
  — Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
• The floating string table was able to stand on its own because the middle string was pulled taught and that tension was used as a pillar to hold the entire structure up.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2020
• On board Stockholm's floating hostel: Stockholm's af Chapman is a full-rigged steel ship dating from the 1800s.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 1 June 2017
• But the floating mystery mine brought up questions about what other devices might be found beneath the surface in Puget Sound.
  — Asia Fields, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2018
• Its adjoining ice shelf—a large floating expanse of ice, which extends from the glacier out over the water—acts like a cork in a wine bottle, holding much of the rest of the glacier in place.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• The mysterious floating objects that appear in the latter half of the song could be a nod to Floating Points, the song’s co-producer.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2022
• Still more tankers became floating storage, receiving oil from one ship, then drifting in the Atlantic for a month or two, waiting for the oil to be picked up by a third vessel.
  — Quartz, 6 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024