afloat

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About 100 boats, live jazz and food trucks aim to draw crowds to South Lake Union’s shores through Sunday for Seattle’s Spring Boats Afloat Show.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2023

Their YouTube channel Foxes Afloat now has more than 130,000 subscribers, making them celebrities in the canal boating community.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2021

Afloat, Raban writes, he found a “sea-distance” that matched his sense of estrangement from Britain, and the grounding stability that eluded him on land.

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2016

Afloat on my back, I gazed up at the cataracts cascading from the rocky cliff.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2011

One of them, entitled Afloat, flapped its endpapers, drifted to the ceiling, and refused to move despite Artful Guile trying to tempt it back down with a bookmark.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi