How to Use free-floating in a Sentence

free-floating

adjective

• But free-floating balloons were, and still are, at the mercy of the winds.
  — Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
• The mix turned out to be a soup of free-floating lymphoma cells that were shed by the tumor.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• The bottom edge of the display is attached to the phone, and a portion of the top is attached to the phone, but the middle has to be free-floating for the sliding mechanism to work.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
• Typical lures include bead rigs and egg sacs to mimic free-floating eggs that steelhead key in on.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 12 June 2024
• But after that, the balloon will be at the mercy of the wind, free-floating for up to 35 minutes and ideally passing through the path of totality.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• This left behind an abundance of free-floating oxygen atoms for organisms to use.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
• The artist subsequently built a device to support his free-floating canvas, which idled in the water for the rest of the exhibition.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• And surprisingly, these objects are free-floating, adrift in space and unattached to any star.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
• These places have long been associated with boredom, with a vague, free-floating malaise.
  — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
• The free-floating creatures eat pelagic gastropods, notably snails.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
• That means the 'all-glue' construction isn't going to work, so foldable displays are usually partially glued on and left free-floating around the hinge area.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2023
• Casual comments laced with free-floating prejudice are a constant in the teachers’ room.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2023
• Outside that context, and free-floating on social media, this content attracted the ire of those who specifically study cannabis and its effects on the brain and body.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2024
• To reduce them to ads for beauty, free-floating signifiers of culture and elegance, does them a disservice.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• The operators also insist Paris is bucking the trend, pointing to other cities such as New York and London that have moved to expand free-floating e-scooter services.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• In the interior of her district, the 91st, sits a free-floating chunk that actually belongs to the turf of the adjacent lawmaker, Republican Karen Hurd.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
• That makes the pollutants easier to collect than free-floating particles.
  — Byrobin Donovan, science.org, 1 June 2023
• The easiest and cheapest is to grow cells in suspension, which means mixing free-floating cells in a bioreactor with liquid feed and waiting until those cells have divided and matured.
  — WIRED, 15 Sep. 2023
• Smaller objects can form in these nebulae as well, including free-floating planets.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 June 2024
• But now that she's gone, there's this free-floating anxiety spreading out all over the country, wherever someone is enrolled (or post-graduation working), and nothing to anchor it.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
• European frog-bit is prohibited in Wisconsin European frog-bit is a free-floating aquatic plant native to Europe and northeast Asia.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2023
• Researchers and clinicians working with combat veterans have shown how avoiding thinking or talking about an overwhelming and painful event can lead to free-floating sadness and anger, all of which can become attached to present circumstances.
  — George Makari, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
• While they would generally be expected to have some similar properties, a free-floating brown dwarf is easier to study than a giant exoplanet.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Dec. 2023
• Influence, it has been noted in this era of epidemics, shares a root word with influenza, an etymology that echoes the popular notion that ideas are free-floating pathogens that someone can catch without giving their conscious consent.
  — Meghan O'Gieblyn, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023
• What emerges from this particular case is an expansive study in collective misogyny — the kind of free-floating contempt for women that holds sway over Clara’s small hometown as well as this institution of ostensible law and order.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• But either way, these enigmatic worlds don’t fit neatly into existing theories describing how either stars or free-floating planets form.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• This observation suggests that for every Jupiter spotted, numerous free-floating Neptunes and Earths are going unnoticed.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• Initially, the company plans for Haven-1 to operate independently, free-floating in Earth’s orbit.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 10 May 2023
• What scientists thought was a free-floating jellyfish instead revealed itself to be another ocean creature altogether.
  — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 14 July 2024
• The whiff of economic hardship, institutional despair and free-floating misery, the kind so often associated with a certain strain of Irish literature and memoirs, hovers over the proceedings before the movie slightly pivots.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024