The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapors dense A vital breath of more ethereal air.
Idle Hope And dire Remembrance interlope, And vex the feverish slumbers of the mind: The bubblefloats before; the spectre stalks behind.
Now and then some painful incident, like the bitumen which floats up from the Dead Sea depths, showed the foulness which lay beneath the film of civilisation.
Charley cried, as we dashed across the middle of a line of floats which marked a net.
When a large fish is meshed in a gill-net, the floats by their agitation advertise the fact.
One of the most certain methods used to discover whether the object of suspicion is really a witch or not, is to throw the victim into the water, for if she floats she is surely a witch.
The liquid air floats over field and tree A veil of dreams;--where do ye find the sting?
Purple sleeps the shore and floats the wave before us, Eachwhere from the oar-stroke eddying warm like wine.
Start as soon as your boat floats on the morning tide.
There is a low, quivering moan floats over it--nothing more; it is a sound almost too deep for utterance, and it thrills through one with a strange horror.
The paddle-floats were flapping the water softly, but to the crew the noise they made was terrifying.
I have already told how, not very long after the Chaplain leaves me and as I sit writing, the lovely sound of a violin floats into the cell.
I drifted along the road as a soap-bubble floatsbefore the wind, or as a body floats in a dream.
As she nears the rocks she pauses, then, as if impelled by a contrary current, floats rudder foremost off to sea, and vanishes in twilight.
These melt, forming a "slag" whichfloats on the metal and aids materially in the refining operations.
It thereupon abstracts oxygen from the metal wherever it finds it, changing to silica (SiO2) which rises and floats on the surface of the cleaned metal.
Vainly the fowler’s eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
But this Utopia, for all the sweeping floats of generalisation I do my best to maintain, is swallowing me up.
As the Angelus floats across the fields, the two pause and bow their heads in prayer.
We see the poplars, with their lopped stems, lifting their bushy tops against that wide, high sky which floats over a flat country, full of billowy clouds as the sky near the North Sea is apt to be.
Strange alternation, in which she floats incessantly; moving, she dreams of repose; in rest, she sighs for movement.
In fine weather he floats at his ease, enabled as he is to rise or sink at pleasure, to make himself a balloon more or less filled with air, and therefore lighter or heavier.
They are in front of the different factories, and over them floats the flag of the nation, opposite its respective consulate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "floats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
