weightless

Example Sentences

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But there are no rest days for the weightless: the astronauts have 30 minutes of exercise built in to their schedules.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

Other bodies in the painting—the woman holding Jesus’ head and the one dressed in green, supporting Mary—seem to be weightless, suspended in mid-air.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

As Wenger wrote in 1990: "Akangbe, bodily and spiritually voluminous, creates works of an ethereal, sublimely weightless loftiness. His work is a primary eruption of genius."

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

In one cold yet weightless moment, the boy-man realizes his own dad might not care whether he survives.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

And Billy let himself down oh so gradually now, hanging onto the diagonal cross-brace in the corner in order to make himself seem nearly weightless to those he was joining on the floor.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut