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float

verb as in lie on the surface

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In the meantime, Epstein has tried to use his charitable projects to float him back to the top.

You can go as deep as you like, or float about on the surface.

He allows the subject to float over to Hitchcock with a calm directness that I admire.

They haven't been dead long enough to float, but that will come in time.

But miraculously they must float in the heavens so far away from us, their beautiful light will continue to shine on us forever.

One frequently wishes to ascertain the specific gravity of quantities of fluid too small to float an urinometer.

The cloud coals grow fainter—now purple; and now in ashes they float away into the chill blue.

A huge float comes along, depicting the stone age and the primitive man, every detail carefully studied from the museums.

Slowly did they float through the darkness of the night, appearing like the work of fairy hands.

Seeds of plants incased in their often dense envelopes may, because they float, be independently carried great distances.

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On this page you'll find 69 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to float, such as: drift, glide, hang, hover, ride, and sail.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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