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
  • 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
  • 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 | Charress@al.com, 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
  • Does inflating the balloon a little bit change the floating behavior of the bottle?
    Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 5 July 2018
  • The middle of the floating structure is designed to look like a cluster of logs on the river to pay homage to the importance of forests in the country’s development.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Sinking fly line has no floating sections and is more common when fishing fast water, deep pools, and deep lakes.
    The Editors, Field & Stream, 3 Apr. 2020

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