• Topping up casks of wine is essential in order to stop the wine turning into vinegar; alternatively, a layer of olive oil can be floated on the surface of the wine.
• The metal's surface tension is great enough to permit a steel needle to be floated on its surface.
• This introduces a lot of fine air bubbles into the effluent, floating the algal matter to the surface to be skimmed off.

• I felt a thrill of excitement as I floated weightless, suspended over the void.
• The cells would break off and could be seen floating in suspension in the tissue culture medium.
• Normally, we'd give you a cast and tell you to come see us in a few weeks, but there appear to be some bone chips floating around.

• A rumor is floating about that the businessman is getting ready to waste millions again in a futile attempt to become governor, but that's relevant only to the coyotes who will take his money.
• ‘It is an idea that is floating about at the moment, but I wouldn't put it any stronger than that,’ he added.
• A couple of hot rumors have been floating about involving Golden State.

• She moved her wand toward the stairs, and Ron floated that way.
• I floated down the stairs with the soft fabric of the dress swishing around my legs.
• When she was finally ready, she walked gracefully down the stairs and floated toward the door.

• With half-time approaching, Ovenden were awarded a free kick well outside the penalty area and Megson floated the ball over everyone into the net.
• Yorke floats a ball into England's box which Lawrence heads over, though the goal was never in danger.
• The ball is floated in to the box and Nesta heads clear.

• The company was floated on the Nasdaq stock market in November 1997.
• A central part of the reform process was to privatize many of the nationalized industries through floating the companies on the stock market.

Synonyms

• Indeed, if the currency were floated, it might well decline as Chinese convert their domestic currency holdings into dollars.
• Uruguay floated its currency late last month following a run on banks and a plunge in foreign reserves.

• Personally, I get a lot of satisfaction out of making my own floats and catching fish using them.
• Once the hard work is done it's easy to fish to a baited area from the bank or to sit in the boat and fish it with a float.

• They use beam and otter trawls or fine filament nylon driftnets, a form of gear used in the open ocean, suspended in the water by floats like a curtain.
• Through an elaborate maze of nets suspended by floats, fish are channelled into captivity.

• Astronauts are dropped into the training pool wearing space suits, then loaded with weights and floats for buoyancy.
• Edie gasped for breath, giving in to the shakes, hanging on to the float like it was her whole world.

• The float of the Portuguese Man of War jellyfish acts as a sail which helps it move or swim in water.
• The float has a pore at the bottom that emits gas and can be refilled with secretions produced by a special gland.

• The aircraft could be fitted with either land gear or floats and featured manually folding wings.
• The planes could be equipped with either wheels or floats for both land and water landings, but only by replacing one type of gear with the other.

• I described the symptoms, and Arv said it could possibly be a blocked exhaust stock or a stuck carburetor float.
• Mount the float valve in your reservoir of water at about the level you want the water (the float is adjustable so placement doesn't have to be perfect).

• The sun also came out as the procession of floats wound its way to the carnival field and then paraded through the town on Saturday.
• There will be 40 floats in tomorrow's procession, accompanied by marching bands, majorettes and cheerleaders.
• A colourful procession of floats through the town was the beginning of a weekend's fun at Dartford's annual festival.