Example Sentences

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I am floating this general strike idea for a simple reason: Workers are running out of options.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2025

“It’s as if I am floating in a surreal state. I’ve had such bad luck in my life that I believe sometimes this just won’t be possible.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 16, 2018

I drift between long daydreams and a feeling that I am floating through the night sky, and it becomes hard to tell if my eyes are open or not.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2016

I love their self-contained, hermetic quality, and the way they make me feel that I am floating, suspended between coming and going.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2012

I am floating on a buoyed raft in the Baltic Sea.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys