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• We lashed together anything that would float to make a raft.

• The body hit the water, floated for a few seconds, and then sank to the bottom of the river.

• In science we learned about density, and why oil floats on water.

• In the pool, several ladies were floating on their backs, like starfish, with their arms and legs stretched out.

• "My rubber duck won't float any more!" "Oh dear - it's all full of water, that's why."

• She stopped rowing and let the boat float with the stream.

• He floated through his exams with no problems whatsoever.

• From the riverbank he watched the boats float past.

• He let go of the string and the balloon floated off into the distance.

• He floats past defenders as if they weren't there.

• The second consisted of companies which were floated specifically to funnel lucrative government contracts on commission, or in anticipation of bank loans that never materialised.

• Pieces of the false keel floated to the surface, but the ship was quickly refloated and found not to be leaking.

• The piece of ice changed direction and floated to the firm land.

• The wood was cut from trees near the village, and then floated down river to the village site.

• He was sitting in the metal desk chair from the plant office and the chair floated.

• The ideas generally floated in 1946 at the defence science conference had at last come to fruition.

• On the opposite shore, however, the water was 'like indigo and oil slick floated on the surface'.

• At the late stage, the effect was diminished and the bubble front floated in its asymptotic velocity.

• Humans have created their own freedom as cultural cooperativists, meaning that the structure of human freedom has long since floated free of its biological base.

• Early in the eighth month of 1852, a large number of dead fish floated to the surface of the inlet near the construction site.

• Solutions are ideas floated by specialists in narrow policy communities looking for a problem to solve.

• With this sequence of assembly steps, the substructure will be floated, as opposed to the wing panels being floated.

• He also floated the idea of giving tenants of private houses the same right to buy as might be given to council tenants.

• All is floated, that is, displaced from the noun phrase the phonologists, adjacent to which it appears in the canonical (2).

• The biggest growth has been in the number of private nursery chains, some of which have been floated on the stock market.