float
Example Sentences
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“Pancake Breakfast” is one of the dozens of floats expected to roll through Pasadena on New Year’s Day in the annual Tournament of Roses Parade.
From Los Angeles Times
What little water is left in the marina is shallow, not enough to float a boat.
From BBC
In recent years, the idea has been floated that there is no such thing as “quality”—a hierarchy of accomplishment—in art.
The state has an ambitious goal of 25 gigawatts of floating offshore wind by 2045, which experts and officials say will be an important piece of the state’s clean energy portfolio to address climate change.
From Los Angeles Times
Financial regulators are floating the removal of “quiet periods” restricting when analysts can publish research on their own bank’s transactions.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
