float
Example Sentences
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To float comfortably off to dreamland with a book, find a writer who informs, entertains and keeps the thrills modest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The Times’ Mikael Wood got an invite to float over Coachella.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Short interest represented more than 26% of Avis’s public float as of Tuesday.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
Xiaomeng Lu, a director at political consultancy Eurasia Group, says mainland Chinese tech firms are "shifting to Hong Kong" for their primary share listing as "geopolitical headwinds dampen their dreams" to float in New York.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
But he needed to keep Moose with him and he was afraid their combined weight would be too much to allow the small tree to float.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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