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Example sentences for "floated"

Lexicographically close words:
flitting; flittings; flivver; flix; float; floater; floaters; floateth; floating; floats
  1. And then, as a finale, he played that exquisite little romance which had floated on a wintry night out of the window of a house in Dean Street, with his own variations.

  2. The salient episodes of his later life floated before him.

  3. And then, as the young violinist paused, from the first floor of one of the houses close to them, there floated faintly into the air the strains of a sweet and melancholy air, played with exquisite taste and feeling.

  4. Her obvious tendresse for the young director had occasioned a good deal of talk; no doubt some of it had floated to Zouroff's ears.

  5. The shareholders' money floated the concern, and paid for splendid business premises, so they began operations.

  6. He floated between this phrase and Mrs. Sandford's frank defense of her girlhood friend.

  7. Sometimes the low hum of voices floated across the cadence of the song.

  8. Merrihew's hand ached to hold a rod and whip the green pools where the fallen olive leaves floated and swam like silver minnows.

  9. The sound of the captain's voice floated down from the bridge.

  10. A large section of the top deck floated clear of the upper works.

  11. Suddenly there floated in upon the summer air a mellow peal of church bells.

  12. They were written as his mind prompted: listening to the carolling of the bird, aloft in the azure sky of Italy; or marking the cloud as it sped across the heavens, while he floated in his boat on the Thames.

  13. It had gone down in ten fathom water; it had not capsized, and, except such things as had floated from her, everything was found on board exactly as it had been placed when they sailed.

  14. The poem was written in his boat, as it floated under the beech groves of Bisham, or during wanderings in the neighbouring country, which is distinguished for peculiar beauty.

  15. Not a particle of smoke floated over it: purity and sunlight alone were suggested by the outside of the platter.

  16. He floated for an instant, and then disappeared under the keel.

  17. The eastern sky was robed in vapours of rosy tint; light clouds of pearly lustre floated in tranquil beauty through the heavens; and the Alpine eagles were careering in joyous and sweeping circles amid the pure ether.

  18. Her head was uncovered, and her waving tresses floated in rich profusion over her shoulders and bosom.

  19. All were exceedingly surprised at the extreme steadiness of the carriage, for it floated upwards and onwards without any disagreeable motion whatever.

  20. Then terrible thoughts of Perodii's mad vengeance floated through my brain, and I cursed myself for not killing him outright, and thus preventing him from working her evil.

  21. In a few moments, another of these mysterious creatures appeared, and this time we watched it approach with rapt astonishment, as it floated through the air in the full focus of the rays from our electric lamps.

  22. One or two laughs, equally modified, floated from obscure corners where cigar-ends glowed, and the animated figure paused in its rapid movement.

  23. He floated for a time in a dream of sensuous delight, for she was one of those girls who will obey orders, who like orders, in fact, and whose proud subservience sends a thrill of supreme pleasure through the minds of their commanders.

  24. He imported a yacht that floated in the harbour like a great moth with folded wings.

  25. The sun shone mistier and warmer, and frost feathers floated in the air.

  26. I watched the hound until he disappeared among broken heaps of stone, and long after that his bay floated to me.

  27. Then again Sounder's bay floated distinctly to me, but it seemed to come from a different point.

  28. Moze passed over the saddle on the trail of the deer, and his short bark floated back to remind me how far he was from a lion dog.

  29. The Wraith, fleecy, feathered curtain of mist, floated down among the ruins of castles and palaces, like the ghost of a goddess.

  30. The labour of cleaning her, inside and out, had been well begun down in the Thoroughfare, but there remained still much to be done after she had been floated up into the harbour of Southport.

  31. The coasters that ran from Benton to the smaller towns down the bay often carried these for a superficial cargo; and evidently some one of them, hit by a squall, had run its deck well under and the stuff had floated off.

  32. One of them said he heard Squire Brackett say that that yacht down in the Thoroughfare was anybody's property now, as it had been abandoned, and he calculated it could be floated again, and he'd bring it up some day and surprise you fellows.

  33. I told John Hart you fellows must have floated her in there, but he wouldn't believe it.

  34. At about the time the Viking had got under way from out Southport Harbour, so had the yacht Surprise floated clear.

  35. The cork is then floated on a solution of acid, with the zinc and copper hanging in the solution.

  36. The logs are cut by natives, hauled to the Menam River, and floated to Bangkok; there they are squared and sent to European markets.

  37. On account of low rates of transportation by river-barges, about three million tons of coal and one million tons of pig-iron and steel billets are floated to the city to be manufactured into other steel products.

  38. Morewood's floated out from the open window of the billiard-room.

  39. How Ciaran floated a firebrand on the lake -- 10 -- XXXII.

  40. Out of the star-gloom behind him floated a soft ripple of laughter as Yellow Bird ran to her tepee.

  41. Now he hated them, and ever after his fangs gleamed white when one of them floated over his head.

  42. For a few moments they floated like gray ghosts over Peter, silent as the night shadows.

  43. Since he had heard of her confinement, he could not think about her without groaning, so uneasy did he feel; and the thought of their first meeting, every time it floated through his mind, made him suddenly redden or grow pale with anguish.

  44. Sometimes it seemed hard, unyielding, dense, as they passed through it, sometimes it stirred about and sent across their faces ardent breaths of flame in which floated an odor of resin in the midst of the long pine-wood.

  45. The thought, the sole thought, which floated in her agitated mind, was one of triumph; she had got the better of her sister!

  46. The solution should not be exposed to a strong light, and the paper must be floated on it in a very subdued light, and in the same manner as paper is floated on a silver solution.

  47. The paper, without having undergone any preceding preparation, except that of having been excluded from the light for several days, is floated on a bath of the nitrate of uranium as follows: Nitrate of uranium 2 drachms.

  48. Albumen paper is sensitized by being floated for a time on the surface of this silver solution, albumen side down.

  49. Harpe hesitated, for she thought of Alice Freoff, but the violin was shrieking enticingly and the voice of the master of ceremonies in alluring command floated up the stairway: "Choose your partners for a waltz, gents!

  50. He followed along the bank until the horse's feet came up and the wagon went down, while there floated from the open end, among other things, something that looked to his astonished eyes like a wooden cradle.

  51. It may be deposited by the melting or grounding on muddy bottoms of the iceberg masses floated off from the end of such a glacier.

  52. When it was reached, the impurities which floated on the top of the molten metal were skimmed off, or the metal itself allowed, by the turning of a cock, to flow from an upper crucible into a lower one.

  53. For the sculls floated loose again in the rowlocks.

  54. Her faint laugh floated back to Dick as he followed them out.

  55. Here were marble benches, and steps down to the water, and sometimes the bright gleams of sunshine came flittering through the leaves, and sometimes the leaves themselves came fluttering down and floated on the surface of the pool.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "floated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.