Example Sentences

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At the lab, Montoya is suspended weightlessly over a treadmill with electrodes attached to his spine to stimulate his nervous system.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2021

Nasa accepts that mission planners had not given the crew the typical period of adjustment to acclimatise to working weightlessly in orbit and had packed their schedules with large amounts of work.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2021

If his daily havoc just blows weightlessly down the beach, and if his grand spectacles fail to make waves, what’s left?

From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2020

If we are all Ishmael and Starbuck and Ahab, caught in our collective addiction, the whales exemplify a counterculture, a way of living weightlessly, of not draining the world that floats them.

From New York Times • May 2, 2020

Next moment, they were both soaring weightlessly through darkness, until they landed squarely on their feet, back in Dumbledore’s now twilit office.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling