floating
adjective
being buoyed up on water or other liquid.
floatingly
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a word derived from
floating.
Example Sentences
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Often, as on the strummy title track or the floatingly ambient “My Future,” the songs begin with retro mellow and then switch to beats halfway through.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2021
She accompanied herself on an amplified troubadour harp and with an electronic setup that allowed her parallel route to be from floatingly meditative to beat-driven danceable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2019
The trees moved not like timber, shocked by wind, but floatingly, like weeds at the bottom of a well of sunshine.
From The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
St. Simon's voice sounded harsh in Danley's earphones, and he felt irritatingly helpless poised floatingly above the ground that way.
From Anchorite by George Luther Schelling
Anyhow I presently dreamed that the island had moved again—not floatingly as before, but suddenly, jerkily, as though something enormously powerful had heaved it up from its bed just once and let it down.
From The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
