How to Use free-floating in a Sentence

free-floating

adjective
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  • But free-floating balloons were, and still are, at the mercy of the winds.
    — Erik Ofgang, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
  • The mix turned out to be a soup of free-floating lymphoma cells that were shed by the tumor.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The silica was then left free-floating as the X-ray burst hit it.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The camera bar is now an elongated, free-floating camera oval protruding from the back of the phone.
    — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The bottom edge of the display is attached to the phone, and a portion of the top is attached to the phone, but the middle has to be free-floating for the sliding mechanism to work.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Typical lures include bead rigs and egg sacs to mimic free-floating eggs that steelhead key in on.
    — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 12 June 2024
  • Lime's fleets are largely free-floating, which has attracted ire.
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 30 July 2024
  • But after that, the balloon will be at the mercy of the wind, free-floating for up to 35 minutes and ideally passing through the path of totality.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • This left behind an abundance of free-floating oxygen atoms for organisms to use.
    — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • The artist subsequently built a device to support his free-floating canvas, which idled in the water for the rest of the exhibition.
    — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • And surprisingly, these objects are free-floating, adrift in space and unattached to any star.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
  • These places have long been associated with boredom, with a vague, free-floating malaise.
    — Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The free-floating creatures eat pelagic gastropods, notably snails.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • That means the 'all-glue' construction isn't going to work, so foldable displays are usually partially glued on and left free-floating around the hinge area.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Instead of definition, the staging gives us a muddle of free-floating feeling.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Casual comments laced with free-floating prejudice are a constant in the teachers’ room.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 June 2023
  • Outside that context, and free-floating on social media, this content attracted the ire of those who specifically study cannabis and its effects on the brain and body.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2024
  • To reduce them to ads for beauty, free-floating signifiers of culture and elegance, does them a disservice.
    — Teju Cole, New York Times, 25 May 2023
  • Observations made with the telescope will help astronomers understand how these free-floating worlds evolve.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
  • The operators also insist Paris is bucking the trend, pointing to other cities such as New York and London that have moved to expand free-floating e-scooter services.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
  • In the interior of her district, the 91st, sits a free-floating chunk that actually belongs to the turf of the adjacent lawmaker, Republican Karen Hurd.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
  • That makes the pollutants easier to collect than free-floating particles.
    — Byrobin Donovan, science.org, 1 June 2023
  • In the inner solar system—this side of Jupiter—the proximity of the sun causes both free-floating water and water entrained on bodies like asteroids to flash into vapor.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The easiest and cheapest is to grow cells in suspension, which means mixing free-floating cells in a bioreactor with liquid feed and waiting until those cells have divided and matured.
    — WIRED, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Smaller objects can form in these nebulae as well, including free-floating planets.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 June 2024
  • But now that she's gone, there's this free-floating anxiety spreading out all over the country, wherever someone is enrolled (or post-graduation working), and nothing to anchor it.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The X-ray scissors allowed the model to create the effect of redirecting a free-floating asteroid when hit by a series of nuclear-intensity explosions.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024
  • European frog-bit is prohibited in Wisconsin European frog-bit is a free-floating aquatic plant native to Europe and northeast Asia.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Lisa Alvarado’s 2019 solo show, for example, included free-floating cloth paintings, feather floor works, and an ambient sound piece.
    — Eve Hill-Agnus, ARTnews.com, 18 July 2024
  • Researchers and clinicians working with combat veterans have shown how avoiding thinking or talking about an overwhelming and painful event can lead to free-floating sadness and anger, all of which can become attached to present circumstances.
    — George Makari, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024

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