'float' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'float' with 20 example sentences.

float noun

: the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment

: the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public

: a drink with ice cream floating in it

: an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade

: a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco

: something that floats on the surface of water

: an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy

float verb

: be in motion due to some air or water current

: be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom

: set afloat

: circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with

: move lightly, as if suspended

: put into the water

: make the surface of level or smooth

: allow (currencies) to fluctuate

: convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation

An apple will float in water, a pear won't.

Thousands of dead fish have been found floating in the lake.

A balloon floats high in the air.

In water, wood will float and stone will sink.

People on space stations float.

The substance is light enough to float on the water.

Did you know rotten eggs float?

Yuck, there's a hair floating in the soup.

The magician made the girl float in thin air.

A ball is floating down the river.

Can you float on your back?

The clouds floating in the sky are beautiful.

All sorts of rumors were floating around about her.

Dan's body was floating in the swimming pool.

Ideas do not belong to anyone, they float in the air.

A ring of smoke floated from his cigar into the air.

That's not my idea of fun, but whatever floats your boat.

Soon, I could only see her neck floating above the waves.

Does that float your boat?

He felt as if he were floating.

Words related to 'float'

drift swim raft buoy