levitate

Example Sentences

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I marveled at how the hidden-in-the-floor projections allow the ghost to levitate, but also increasingly felt a sense of mourning.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

This causes microdroplets to levitate and jump off the surface within milliseconds at lower temperatures because the speed of boiling can be controlled by changing the height of the pillars.

From Science Daily • May 24, 2024

His narrator, Richard, is the least shiny of a golden foursome whose youth, beauty and careless wealth allow them to levitate somewhere over Sydney Harbor, happily encased in the champagne bubble of their bottomless self-regard.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2024

Planetary scientists think that electrostatic forces generated from this interaction levitate dust or ice above the ring to form the spokes, though after several decades no theory perfectly predicts the spokes.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

The office of the presidency, as he saw it, was designed to levitate above the party squabbles and transcend partisan versions of the national interest.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis