floats
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Heather is part of one of the passing floats, and tells me she is a steelpan player, although today she's "just partying" on her float.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
And in the culminating piece that gives the collection its title, she writes of the catastrophic betrayal that floats out of sight in the later writings of Alice Munro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
On stretches of waterfront, people linger in boats, kayaks and pool floats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The process created carbon-rich dust resembling material that floats through interstellar space and is preserved inside comets, asteroids and meteorites.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
All this old stuff floats at me out of the darkness.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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