- float
- 01. When I was a little boy, I used to enjoy spending time at the park watching sticks [float] down the stream, and chasing after them.02. The body of a young man was found [floating] in the harbor this morning.03. The fishermen put out [floats] to mark the location of their crab traps.04. The smell of barbecued salmon [floated] over to us from the neighboring campsite.05. The young bride [floated] up the aisle to where her fiancé was standing.06. The little girl let go of her balloon, and watched it slowly [float] up into the sky.07. Rick and Sandy spent the afternoon [floating] around the lake on inner tubes.08. The Beatles sang, "Turn off your mind, relax and [float] downstream."09. There is a German proverb which states that wine makes secrets [float] to the surface.10. The deadly Portuguese-Man-of-War jellyfish is sometimes found [floating] in groups numbering in the thousands.11. Because it is largely composed of gas, the entire planet of Saturn would [float] in water.12. A financial crisis in Thailand in 1997 forced the government to [float] the currency.13. In the painting by Botticelli, Venus [floats] ashore on a shell, blown by a male wind god and a female breeze.14. More than 45,000 pieces of plastic garbage [float] on every square mile of ocean.15. People say that when Edinburgh Castle is lit up at night, it seems to [float] against the blackness of sky and rock like a castle in the air.16. When astronauts first shaved in space, their weightless whiskers [floated] up to the ceiling of their rocket.17. With a [floating] currency, prices on imports are continually changing.18. Anyone who is in the boat must wear some kind of [flotation] device.19. Only the lower part of our Earth's atmosphere is visible, in the form of the clouds we see [floating] in our sky.20. Boxer Muhammad Ali once said of himself, "[Float] like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Grammatical examples in English. 2013.