But her gaze only floated far away to the horizon. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Momma didn’t turn on the flashlight on the way back, nor did she answer the questioning Good evenings that floated around us as we passed the darkened houses. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a tunnel of washy sounds, I hover just above his arms, floating on a current above this chaos. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I sit in my chair, the wreath on the ceiling floating above my head, like a frozen halo, a zero. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

That makes me so happy I want to jump up and down and drive a float the rest of my life. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Over his head floats a shimmering blue gem. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was in a great, billowing white cloud, floating in the whiteness, and there were huge buckets of water being thrown on him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Sophie watched them, they all started floating towards the cave entrance, which was still open. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pelicans floated on the swells while seagulls and a lone eagle wheeled above them. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the same way, I like to imagine my brother and me, floating together since the world’s beginning on our raft of eggs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Magnificent finned automobiles cruise grandly down the street like parade floats. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear little bits and pieces floating out over the yard. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked directly into her eyes and saw tiny moons floating in them. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Stirred by air currents of a mysterious origin, the fabrics flapped up and floated around the room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Near the mother floats a puppy, and I can look no more. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Periodically, his free hand floated up and his thick fingers bat­ted at something in the air. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Near 0 g the slightest motion sends our friends floating and tumbling up in the air. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even as he stood there, flooded with excitement, something Harry had once heard Mr. Weasley say came floating out of his memory. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He is floating his fingers through my hair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patches of ice floated gently on top of dark water. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I felt like I floated up the front stairs, then I made sure the screen door didn’t slam and took my shoes off and went in and sat on my bed. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Cloud-Men were much too busy with what they were doing to have noticed the great peach floating silently up behind them. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It simply lingered, motionless except for the designs on its skin and its round eyes floating on their stalks. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You can’t just drop things in the water, you know! They kind of float away!” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Their cries floated to him on the dusty wind. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It floated with its door to the sty I reached out, grabbed the handle and lifted the door open. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She knew how to float on those waves, how to close her eyes and pinch her nose shut when the wave came toward her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But when Act II started, my mind floated up to the stage and, like a ghost, went through the painted set into the dark corner where we’d hidden the rats. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She could also hear the boy’s voice from above floating down. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then the singsong cries of a beans hawker floated in through the window. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then she was across the porch I couldn't hear her heels then in the moonlight like a cloud, the floating shadow of the veil running across the grass, into the bellowing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man's deep voice floated out the open doorway. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Heavier-than-water objects, they assured him, float if they have the right shape. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing that would seem to make this bill float in the air. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As it crawled through downtown, the float looked something like an enormous green reptile with a sleek cedar spine and eight wavering spruce quills. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It tugged the floating carton toward the ocean, which, at high tide, had crawled across the beach and was making the far side of Atlantic Avenue foamy with surf. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

If the philosophers were right and the habitable earth was a sphere floating on the surface of a larger globe of water, then a map should show the habitable earth as a circle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Little strands of white, barely visible in the dark, floated toward me like a cloud. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I knew floating homes could have more than one story, but it’s different to see it in real life. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Worms squiggled frantically from a billion holes in the ground and drowned, their pale bleached bodies floating everywhere. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a buzz, and then suddenly, from the South Pole, a faint voice floated out into the Popper living room. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I put my face in the water, my arms floating on the surface. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bowls hold floating tea lights and flower petals. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I manage to float for three pop-up breath lengths before inadvertently getting water up my nose. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

So Dicey and James each carried the weight of a younger one floating beside. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squatting down until the water reached her chin, she washed her hair and watched it float about her until she grew chilled. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of sunscreen and roses floated by on the warm air. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It appeared as a jumble of cascading windows floating in front of me, displaying text, maps, photos, and audio and video files, all indexed, cross-referenced, and pulsing with life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Stars exploded out the top of my head and all of my words and all of my rememberies followed them up to the sun, burning to ash that floated back and settled in the mud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sawed it back and forth, one end out, then the other, and finally it broke free, though floating still in little more than a foot of water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I can almost see her thoughts floating away into the sky, imagining herself older. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The king eagerly lifted off its lid and rich, warm aromas floated in the air, making Minli’s stomach grumble. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

But here, on Watership Down, there floated up only faint traces of the daylight noise below. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she looked through it, she saw those drifting golden sparkles, the sraf, the Shadows, Lyra’s Dust, like a vast cloud of tiny beings floating through the wind. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We float around on our backs like starfish and it reminds me of when we were kids and we’d go underwater with our goggles on and scream secrets to each other. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know that a hurricane had sunk the ship and left her crate floating on the waves for days until it finally washed ashore. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A floating crystal staircase led up to the club’s only entrance, a circular opening at the bottom of the sphere. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If a gyptian body floated ashore down the coast, or got snagged in a fishnet, well—it was only a gyptian. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The back window of another car was shattered, but the glass shards had not fallen; they hovered like ice chunks floating in still water. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I look up and see a floating yellow sphere. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I stayed awake awhile, though, letting Rondell’s last line float around in my head some. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their faces float in front of him, then fade out, and enter again, first one, then the other, and then the three of them together. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t so much seem to be standing behind the pitcher as floating over him. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

As Fred and George led a round of applause, the golden balloons overhead burst: Birds of paradise and tiny golden bells flew and floated out of them, adding their songs and chimes to the din. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to float down this new river. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Out of her depth and helplessly floating in now-receding circles of fear. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then Obinze’s voice, his words floating into the air, into her head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Plastic bags floating like jellyfish, and a deflated birthday balloon—one of the shiny metallic ones—lifted and zipped through the air like happy shrapnel. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

They whispered, “Jesus, Jesus,” and together hoisted up their tub of water in which tight red tomatoes floated and threw it on the smoke-and-flame- bound woman. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

With the rice bags on the raft, they floated downstream. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll float downstream, come upon his campsite from the riverside while he’s out in the woods looking for me, and I’ll rescue Viola. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The constant pipe-organ sounds reminded Jason of the floating lair of Aeolus, back in Colorado, except here the winds seemed in no hurry. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I floated the idea to Mom one afternoon while we were making tea in our kitchen. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the body that now floated faceup in the water, that now slid below the surface into the darkness. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dreams of sunny days with Besa and the fiery sun over the rice fields floated above her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guide led them past the outer piers into the floating market. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider than the sky and higher than the Andes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branches in the tree began to rustle, and leaves floated down around us, as though someone—or a bunch of someones—was climbing down. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It’s fun to be outdoors and see the snowflakes float down past the brim of your hat, and hear the squeak of the fresh powder under your boots. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were beds ringing, docks smiting in belfries, standards floating—until the whole air above them seemed to be alive. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don't really know how attached you are until you move away, until you've experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The arm was attached to a chest decorated with many medals, and above floated a general’s cap. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Words for him were like calming breezes that floated across the pages. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s got things floating in it,” she said. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was floating in a great lake of light, and the voice was singing to him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, trying to figure out how I can float around in this bubble forever.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of thinking, I picture a body of water and me on my back floating, still and peaceful, no movement except my heart beating in my chest. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And it appears to float in the air. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Southampton’s barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They were a poor folk, fishers and frog-hunters who lived in houses of thatch and woven reeds on floating islands hidden in the deeps of the swamp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A white flake floated out into the night, and began its slow descent. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Looking out the window, he saw Lucas’s car speeding away, dust floating everywhere. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There is a paper airplane floating on a current. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

That way if I started floating, the Preacher could have pulled me ’long home like a kite. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The rest of us waited in the shallows, where the water’s slick shine was veiled with a dark lace of floating ants. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As La Belle Sauvage floated more and more swiftly down into London, the tide was nearing its height, and the consequences for the little canoe were serious. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Inside the wooden bucket, bits of meat, cut carrots, potato fragments, and onion floated in a fragrant yellow broth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She even climbed inside a particularly large bubble and floated just over the tips of the grass. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A shadow-figure with arms outstretched and toes pointed, his body floating on the wind. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Henrietta looked at it, but she didn’t float it or anything. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

A poisoned silence floated through the rooms like a big fishnet that Violet alone slashed through with loud recriminations. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she saw it: a broken wagon, floating toward them. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Across the ancient sea floor a dozen tall, blue-sailed Martian sand ships floated, like blue ghosts, like blue smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few seconds later, up it came again, and this time, up it stayed, floating serenely upon the surface of the water. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

A trick of the indirect light has made the graffiti letters float up through the coat of primer, a ghost-gray print I recognize immediately as Margo’s. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then, late Saturday afternoon, for some unknowable reason a light went on in the reptilian core of Beck’s inanimate brain and he floated back to consciousness. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In weightlessness, you have to be wedged in, or tied down, or your body will float aimlessly, banging into other people or equipment as it goes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could use scraps or pieces of logs that might have floated ashore. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But a man built a great floating hutch that held all the animals and birds until Frith returned and let them out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here she practiced, holding on to a jutting rock and letting her body float out straight. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to ask how we were planning to reach the ground when I saw Olive float into view past the edge of the roof. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A quiet bubble floating on a sea of noise. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of music and raucous laughter drifted out and floated over the water. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We could hear the men in the skiffs talking about what had to be done to float the boat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Past an iron tub of empty bottles floating in soapbubbled water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had let herself go With it—swimming quietly, floating—till the boat arrived at last.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t know just why my successful evasion of chemistry should have floated into my mind there in Jay Cee's office. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“What’s this game going to be about? Drinking milk shakes while floating books in a hot tub?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Baitfish below swarmed madly among the potato peels and eggshells floating on the water. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It twinkled and glinted, like breathing, the float slow like breathing too, and debris half submerged, healing out to the sea and the caverns and the grottoes of the sea. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were shouts of wild joy floating up. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A snowy owl floated past, turning his head as he peered down at her curiously. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout my childhood, when I raised my blanket in the morning, I saw a black, sparkling powder float off it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike me, my room is one big blast of girl, with all the dresses I make—floating and not—hanging all over the walls. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She turned the spigot on, letting water break up the tight knots of Kentucky Wonders and float them to the top of the bowl. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Aristotle might have had difficulty in following Galileo’s argument that the size of the container matters when trying to understand floating bodies, but Archimedes would not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They’re lying down, not on top of each other, just side by side, floating in space. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Their long green hair floated listlessly around their faces. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When Mom cast an eye on my soggy Buster Browns, she said, “I swear, Sonny, if your head gets any emptier, it’s going to float off your head like a balloon.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Or,” said Reginald, “perhaps we can find another floating barrel. That was a jolly good ride.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her voice floated upward with the sweet summer air, very tuneful, charged with a sort of happy melancholy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Her secret is good sex,” Grace said seriously, a Korean-American woman who taught African-American studies, tiny and slender, always in stylishly loose-fitting clothes, so that she seemed to float in a swish of silks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s father, Leaf Laroux, walked down the floating spiral stairs at the center of the bookshop. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She could sit in the hollow and float along—but it would probably flip over with her inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river was empty but for great chunks of the greasy yellow soap floating here and there. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fly straight through the floating isles like a ghost, angling up to go as high as I can until I can’t get any farther from land. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked downward and saw nothing but black darkness into which now and then a few flakes of white floated from the sky, falling slowly in the dim glow of the flashlight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ice floated on the dark water in broken pieces—large versions of the puzzle Jack had at his feet. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The syllables float overhead, drifting into an icy blur of white. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I also remembered Momma’s voice floating out of the radio. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It felt like an idea, a particle of dust floating around in the air that hadn’t landed yet. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There are all kinds of pieces of wood, trees floating in the water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She twirled around so that her sleeves floated out and the sequins sparkled. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Laughter floats in through the window—maybe Junaid is out there telling the cricket boys something funny about me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When Frederick speaks, his attention floats up, as though he’s scanning the sky for something. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I'm somewhere between euphoric and half dead; floating spots drift in front of my eyes whenever I look too long at one thing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Both of us just two beings floating around in the world but not really living no more. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She spent a whole summer with the gray ball, the little ball of fur and string and hair always floating in the light near her but which she did not see because she never looked. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

You splashed one another for a while, ignoring the litter that floated by. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We carry it furtively back up the hill and shove it through a grating in the pavement; it floats down there on the surface of the dark water, pallid and drowned-looking. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the form fed, it grew and grew, until it nearly covered the entire stage, and when it had gorged on all the shadows it could find, it turned and floated toward the crowd. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I locked eyes with this one Mexican kid, about me and Rondell’s age, and I felt like I was lifting off my feet, floating into the air. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Puffy white clouds floated overhead in a blue sky. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re in here doing a back float. Does that mean you’ve spent all the money? December first is only three days away.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a plastic bag floating in the corner and bent down to reach for it. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

She tethered the boat to a small floating house bobbing up and down in the reeds. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The woman smiled, opened her mouth to say something, and then thought better of it, floating out of the kitchen as quickly as she had appeared. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

How can a clump of feathers with legs and wings take off and just float on a breeze? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He holds his silence for a moment, letting his words sink in, but lately thoughts tend to float rather than sink. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Along one canal more than 500 dead fish were seen floating or lying on the bank on a stretch of less than a quarter of a mile. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Grace grabbed the edge of the floating table and gave her answer in a thick, slurred voice. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound caromed off the trunks of pine trees, carrying past the meager beach out over the water, where I floated on an inner tube, reading Love Story. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I realize I am floating, frozen, trapped inside a set of ruins with only a small eyehole through which I can see the rest of the game unfolding. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s still Spender, sir. We found Biggs floating in the canal.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and bony: and his hair was red beneath the black cap. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The moon floats in the heavens and in the waters of the canal. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge squeezed her eyes closed until she saw glittery things floating in the dark. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He carefully lifts out a crystal bowl filled with round balls floating in a thick honey-colored syrup. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You will see him,” she said, as the room began to fade and emerge again, flying needles, adult diapers, floating around in the haze that was now my mind. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A poster of The Goonies hangs lopsided on the wall, and his desk sits under a big window with a view of other floating houses. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

You could almost feel the temperature of the room drop, like the way light dims whenever a cloud floats in front of the sun. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I shut my eyes in the warm bath, I feel as if I’m floating inside a cloud. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

More gunshots and a cloud of tear gas floated by. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He says if he had a handcart he could wheel the bags from float to house and that would be a blessing but a handcart would cost two weeks’ wages and who could afford that? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His laughter floats up and fades into the dark, starry sky. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It’s a girl floating on top of the water, surrounded by fireflies and water lilies. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But not much good floated in the muck. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

From far back in the flinty hills, the long, lonesome howl of a timber wolf floated down in the silent night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air grew warm and very still under the great moist clouds that had floated up from the South and the distant seas. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When it gets too dark to see the ball properly and mosquitoes start munching on us, Patti's voice floats down—"Time for dinner, Kabir!" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It floated on the water, red, five-fingered, like a bloody hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We angled down toward a giant marina, where more yachts of weird shapes and sizes floated. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

These were the ladies who drowned their shame and floated in living people’s houses with their hair undone to show their everlasting despair. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jam jar floated off the ground, sailed over, and landed at my feet. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But it did matter, of course, which is why I kept pounding at our cinder-block walls and why the questions had floated beneath the surface for a week. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The words floated through his mind like soap bubbles, there as he read them, gone completely a moment later. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

My father said never eat anything floating in water for the rot that might be in it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The steam from the soup kept floating up into Blount’s face, and after a little while he reached shakily for his spoon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

An image floated out of the darkness into Tree-ear’s mind—that of himself with his eye pressed to the knothole of Kang’s shed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Very slowly he raised his hand and let the brown weed float back and cover the face. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably come in here with amphibious planes, small bushplanes with floats that could land right here on the lake and pick him up and take him home. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of walking I was floating through space, not clear and sharp, but with a gray film over everything. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you see that thing floating in the cauldron?” asked Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Things floated in the water but none that brought me hope. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His tiny forehead has been decorated with considerable struggle with sandalwood paste to form six miniature beige moons floating above his brows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That no one could have understood that they would be the target of monthly hurricanes pinballing up the Mississippi Alley, gunning for anything that didn’t have the sense to batten down, float, or go underground. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some floated up to the surface of the ponds, the scraps that fed the meerkats. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The way she moved was unnatural, as if she floated rather than walked. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

At one point all the chairs float some distance off the ground, and while the movement is steady and secure, Bailey’s toes barely graze the floor and he clutches the sides of his chair nervously. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a wonder we don’t all just float away—pfft!—like smoke. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The gut had disappeared under the foot of water flooding the yard, bringing with it the same floating dump heap we had seen swirling about the front yard. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olive asked, and without waiting for an answer she did, and promptly floated to the ceiling. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Way at the back of the church, somebody went floating by in a flying-trapeze kind of outfit, which is also not the kind of thing you should wear to a funeral. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her hair floats loosely from her skull and waves above her in the tide. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second, the world seems to tilt on its axis, like it’s about to roll right off its designated ring in the solar system and float aimlessly into outer space. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was hearty-looking stuff, lots of veggies floating in a thick brown broth. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Dead dogs, cats and rats cluttered the roadside, or floated starkly on the waters with blown distended bellies. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Balls and tendrils are floating everywhere, and of course I’m late for homeroom. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She watched every ounce, every rock, every leaf, every crystal float to the bottom of the toilet bowl, until the water was cloudy and white. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of getting in there and taking things over, couldn’t we learn to disconnect altogether, uncouple, detach, and float free? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, she’d gaze out an open upstairs window, and her sighs would float to us on the breeze, melancholy as the call of a mourning dove. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the pale light he could see the little waves break over her, and her skirt floated about and clung to her legs as the water receded. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the voices, of their strange contradictions—of the way they made sound float on air, of how that sound was soft like a warm wind, but so sharp it pierced. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A colored man floats down out of the sky blowing a saxophone, and below him, in the space between two buildings, a girl talks earnestly to a man in a straw hat. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel like I’m floating in the ocean.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I am flying and floating, light as a petal. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shopping cart icon floats in my view now, as well as a field that I can type an amount into. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cool stuff, like a globe that floated in the air and a Rubik’s-type cube made with little mirrors. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“They think he might have...what? Rescued the child and floated away?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Scraps of ash floated through the air for weeks and found their way into everything, from the butter to the tea. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound floats over all, clear like the night, liquid, serene, and lonely. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m easing in along the shore, about a hundred yards from the Crofts’ big floating dock, when a boat pulls away from the dock. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of that future day floats up in Natasha’s mind. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They could see far down into the valley now; the mists were lifting and floating away upon the breeze. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We looked back to see a length of rope uncoil itself and float across the gravel at ankle height. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The first day I lie in bed, floating in the glassy delicate clarity of fever. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It floats into that golden light around us. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Nina, pointing to a dark spot that seemed to be floating in the sky, unaffected by the howling wind. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her house floated at the end of a narrow pier with one other house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was floating in a cloud that was passing from one year to another in no particular order. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They crossed at evenfall as a homed moon floated upon the river. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I got macaroni and cheese and she got a root beer float, and we drove back home to the superior wilds of Brooklyn. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The tray was faded but still pretty, with a big rainbow in the middle and three cherubs with harps floating above it. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Imagine my teenage wrath when, time after time, my homework was returned with this well-meant floating apostrophe struck out. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

And there, there—now just passing into the courtyard—was Robin’s lovely mother, the veil of her coif floating and mingling with that of the Queen whom she attended. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Days, weeks afterward, there were ashes, paper bits from wallets, purses, floating into the school yard.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

A tray of cocktails floated at us through the twilight and we sat down at a table with the two girls in yellow and three men, each one introduced to us as Mr. Mumble. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

With each breath, little snowflakes of floating ash choked them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

As if we both were floating in the air, the land, buildings take shape. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a standard desktop display—except it’s floating in midair. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after I emerged from the door in the cargo hold and stepped onto a large floating piece of wood, I watched the giant ship sink in front of my eyes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

After a bit, lulled by the bobbing of the raft and by the soft, pleasant sounds of the sea against the oil barrel floats, I went to sleep again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ah, it was bliss, not to think, it was as though he were floating, dreaming . . . just answer no .. . say no . . . just answer no. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Like my hands might float up in the air if I let them. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I could float for hours. It’s so relaxing.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The two men floated across the MAV cabin to the opening. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that space, she floated swiftly like a bird between the gas stoves and ovens and walk-in refrigerators. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He stared in shock at what was floating in the water. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had wished her out of my life, and she had acquiesced, floating out of her body to escape my terrible hatred. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They floated down lazily but were followed by smaller, drier flakes that kept coming for days. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then Amaroq jumped, floated in the air for an instant, and sank his teeth into the shoulder of the beast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His name and stats also appeared, floating in the air above him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The trails of cigarette smoke floated upward and disintegrated. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Buchanans' house floated suddenly toward us through the dark rustling trees. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Lee saw flags floating through white smoke, disembodied, like walking sticks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I float in the delicious stillness of the world around me, briefly forgetting every moment that brought me to this one. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The flow was less strong and as he rubbed the side of his hand against the planking of the skiff, particles of phosphorus floated off and drifted slowly astern. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll live without a root beer float until next summer,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s dim and cool, and blue and red dots float in front of my eyes like after somebody snaps a flash picture. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ring beyond was filled with steaming water: a bubbling cauldron, in which there heaved and floated a wreckage of beams and spars, chests and casks and broken gear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A boat would just float there comfortably I supposed, at dead low water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A green feather, like the one Harison had picked up on the floating island, for his mother. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They float close above me in thick, solid folds of billowy white sheets. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I circled Alex and drew a line to Jessica, bypassing names that didn’t connect—that just floated there—incidents all by themselves. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But I was staring at a pair of glowing yellow eyes, floating in the dark. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

An eagle owl called as it floated along the upper airs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The body was still floating gently in the same place. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My head felt like a balloon about to float away. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord, I get so tired of this I don’t know what to do,” her voice floated plaintively from behind the curtain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Canal boats float like jewels on the dark water. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When she spread her hands, her palms side by side, a tiny globe—the size of a tennis ball—floated an inch above her gray-blue skin. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Shows how much you know,” Juanita mumbled, looking at the dead man floating in front of her. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Their horses kicked it up when they rode into the courtyard, and it floated into Kaede’s nose and throat and made her cough. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I ravage the pantry and fridge, but we don’t even have tortillas—nothing except condiments, eggs, and one sad pickle floating in a jar. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The lack and the hunger floated around us like a cloud, withholding everything—all hope, all satisfaction, every single drop of cleansing rain. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Chou scrubs the grime off her clothes, I float face up in the water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was on a bed made of silky woven kelp, in a .room paneled with abalone shell Glowing pearls the size of basketballs floated around the ceiling, providing light. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She floated free, like a seed on the wind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, my father is playing the piano—soft, sad notes floating up from the living room. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The whole of the Scientific Revolution is encapsulated in Galileo’s little treatise on floating bodies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So he’d snuck a look: and there they were, floating on twin inflatable rafts, in twin blue wading pools of water. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's like this place where everything is made of some kind of Oreo, and the river is an Oreo milk shake, and you sit on top of this massive Oreo and float down it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Hologram signs in vuvv float above each door, telling us where we should go, but no one can read them, so everyone just stands around confused. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It looked like a float in the Rose Parade. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Or float, if you wanted to be technical. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The young man put on his robe, closed the lapels tight, and jammed his towel into his pocket, He picked up the slimy wet, cumbersome float and put it under his arm. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Everything was faded and silent in the dawn—dirty teacups, unmade bed, snowflakes floating past the window with an airy, dangerous calm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Its twin, floating on the sea beyond the ship, shimmered red with every wave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It is a bird of spectacular appearance and beguiling habits, building its floating nests in shallow lakes of western United States and Canada. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They also engaged the best seamstresses to make the floating graduating dresses and to cut down secondhand pants which would be pressed to a military slickness for the important event. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody is aware of what happened with Imani, so it looks to me like Mrs. Garcia is working really hard to soften the uneasiness that’s floating on the edges of everything. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Cold and hungry, the only food we have to eat are the fish and rabbits that float by. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will never forget how beautiful the earth appears from a great distance, floating silently and serenely like a blue and white marble against the pure black of space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hush,” he said, “don’t fret. It’s still there inside you, all that knowledge. Just be calm and let yourself find it. Don’t force it. Just sort of float down to touch it...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To see them all the way out here soothes him, as though he has turned and found an old friend floating beside him in the middle of the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I am floating on a buoyed raft in the Baltic Sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Or that Pet’s arrival had tossed her out of the world she used to live in and left her floating in an uncomfortable nowhere. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Standing on a floating island nearby is Max. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pink and white petals from late-blooming cherry trees would occasionally float down onto the board, and some would gently land on his head. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost see the words floating through her head as she struggled to find something to say. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yellow petals floated between and around Nathan’s legs into the circling winds before him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ugwu was so relieved he feared he would float away if he raised one leg. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bag was floating next to him but he had to get it out of the plane and onto the raft, then back to shore. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He floated by them, and slowly his boat departed, waning to a dark spot against the golden light; and then suddenly it vanished. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Shanti rested her head against the bank and let her body float out in front of her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her hair spills out behind her, waves of red floating in the air as if she were suspended in water. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The last thing that he remembered before he fell into deep dream was a glimpse of high white peaks, glimmering like floating isles above the clouds as they caught the light of the westering moon. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She went back to see, and I heard her tell Maman how it was, a desolation of lost shoes and hats, of blood, of burned ballots floating in the breeze, sticking in the blood. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like I was floating the whole trip back to Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up from his chair and floated in the air, carrying the basket. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Daisy called the ship a floating palace. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pitch-black everywhere, like Moreau’s cage is floating in an ocean of shadow. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The faces of all the kings that he had served and failed floated before him in the darkness, and the faces of the brothers who had served beside him in the Kingsguard as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Behind a veil of ragged clouds, a full moon floated fat and white as a snowball. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Le Bateleur floats to the top as she shuffles, and she frowns at the card before glancing around the café. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

How could principle, an abstract thing floating in the air, wedge itself so solidly between them, and turn Blaine into somebody else? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Men in gray robes rode upon wheeled ladders, seeming to float through the air, scrolls flapping behind them like wings as they rolled from shelf to shelf. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Still, the last sad memory hovers round, and sometimes drifts across like floating mist, cutting off sunshine and chilling the remembrance of happier times. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He simply floats by them with peculiar disinterest. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A month ago, one of the camp dwellers saw a man’s body float past. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I had the strangest sensation of floating, of drifting farther and farther away with nothing and no one to cling to. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, Barack and I floated around at the palace reception, eating canapés with the other G20 leaders and their spouses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Out in the world waits a multitude of sanctuaries—gardens full of bright green wind; kingdoms of hedges; deep pools of forest shade through which butterflies float thinking only of nectar. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The soup was tepid, and you were lucky if there was a limp potato floating in it. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

About as much fun as watching ice melt—until all of a sudden the winch line goes slack and the Mary Rose is floating free. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ben rolls down the window, and I watch out the side-view mirror as the beer floats past the car and splashes onto the interstate. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The smell from the dining hall floats over my nose, sweet and yeasty: baking bread. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Like that little book said: Stick out your elbows, pick up your feet, and float along with the crowd! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry let himself float back upward and broke the bubbly surface, shaking his hair out of his eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Choosing a day when the sea was calm, I floated what was left of the canoe and, pushing it in front of me, made my way past the sandspit and into the cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A horn sounded upriver, and a large cargo barge floated slowly into view. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Savery insisted that the float/piston would produce too much friction to be workable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

While at the Job Corps Center, Wes had felt his problems floating off in the soft country air of Laurel. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As she entered the room, she brought with her the winged presence of Clara, floating in the room before the loving eyes of her husband, who had not seen her in several days. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he floated out of his seat, dived into the eyes, and was swallowed up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was cold salad and clear soup, with translucent mushrooms floating within the broth in cloudlike clusters. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It appeared as a three-dimensional globe floating in front of me, and I gave it a spin with myhand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I tried to plug my ears and picture my prayers floating up to God. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Surrounded on all sides by the Red Army and by units of the KGB, West Berlin floated like an island in a hostile, turbulent sea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It floated down, right into my outstretched arms, like some beautiful white bird coming in for a landing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His soul is prob-ably still out there somewhere—floating in the darkness, looking for hope, hoping for forgiveness, and terribly, terribly frightened. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every Friday she made them and served them with a clear fish head broth on the surface of which floated fresh cilantro. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was like losing my balance on earth and floating in the air like a balloon. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I focused on Jorgenson’s brand-new boots, then on a pebble, then on my own face floating high above me—the last things I'd ever see. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had started with one anomaly, the floating chip of ebony, and discovered another, the floating needle; as a consequence he had done his best to make sense of surface tension. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The winds changed direction, and the currents altered their flow, and a new world floated out to meet him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The velvet armchair slides forward from a corner packed with trunks and scarves while the tailcoat floats up from it like a shadow, obediently hanging itself in a wardrobe. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When I get close enough, I see what looks like a black ball floating in the water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It breaks Mr. Hannon’s heart to think of you dragging bags of coal off a float and it breaks your mother’s heart and ’twill destroy your eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had them brought to him early, while the mist still hung above the hills, with the sun swimming in it like a ball floating in murky water. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was a magical time, full of dreaminess and charm, a time to watch the mariposas emerge out of their cocoons, gather their courage, and take flight while we floated faceup in the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

With her hands she rubbed and scrubbed the corn until the hulls came off and floated on top of the water. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the spicy flavor of anise spread over his taste buds, his mind floated back to his conversation with his father earlier in the week. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I would enjoy hours of floating, day dreaming, imaginary conversations with my New York musician friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Florida, this is like floating on a cloud. Try one.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But if she’s a cloud spirit, couldn’t she just...you know, float away?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I float among them, watching as they twinkle. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Like magic, I float inside, into the second floor and a pink bedroom. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’ll float, which, of course, is the answer to the first pop quiz question. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He quickly goes for the Comet, but it slips from his grasp, only to float farther away. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he felt a cold breeze on the back of his neck and sat bolt upright — Peeves the Poltergeist had been floating next to him, blowing hard in his ear. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

We floated, peering into the water ahead, but beyond the first fifty feet, it was only darkness. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It started with a rumble, sending puffs of black smoke drifting out of the tailpipe and floating over the yard. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

We came upon a river where the soldiers’ aluminum boats, with motors, gently floated. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was encased in a milky white sphere, which was starting to float off the ground. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a loud but mostly garbled voice floated through the receiver. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His voice is floating somewhere high above us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some particles floated off slowly, others whizzed away at a great rate. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther off, villages floated on empty spaces, where wide fields were. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When he floated up to the top, he was dead from his exertion. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The club itself was a massive cobalt blue sphere, three kilometers in diameter, floating thirty meters off the ground. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As the skiff motored from the bay, the fading whine of the engine floated out across the choppy waters. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He’d checked out; he was on some floating island made of graphite and paper where this reality didn’t exist. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nailer could just see pale objects floating on the surface, starting to sink. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One of the floating obsidian hoverboards waited, bobbing up and down above a rail. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The otter likes to lie on its back in the kelp beds, floating up and down to the motion of the waves, sunning itself or sleeping. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I wished,” O’Brien had said, “I could float off this floor like a soap bubble.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Rhythmically, without haste, it sucked down a floating sedge fly and sank back under water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told how he raised the alarm when I fell from the branch, then ran downstream, plunging into die water to intercept my floating body. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The wind of the world blew now from the West, and the great clouds were lifted high, floating away eastward; but still only a grey light came to the dreary fields of Gorgoroth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Where I come from,” the snake girl said, “the punishment for treason is being covered in honey, bound to an open boat, and floated out into a stagnant pond. The flies eat you alive.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I looked straight up at the crystal gate floating twenty meters above me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I float on my back, which continues to burn beneath the water, but the agony quiets to pain. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Like the clouds above us stopped floating over the mountaintops. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Has your Highness seen the Lady Viola tonight?” asked a gallant troubadour of the fairy queen who floated down the hall upon his arm. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jurors had noted how his left eye floated and how the light winked against its dull, glassy surface as it orbited eccentrically in its socket. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m fighting the wind, this place called Detroit, my cousins and their walls, the prison that keeps my mother, my broken home country floating in the middle of a sinking sea. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A barge of mist floated along the water, and dragonflies, iridescent blue ones, darted back and forth like they were stitching up the air. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike in New York, here I can see his name floating over his head, telling me that his name is Jiro Yamada. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted a go on Air Hockey, where a plastic disk floats on a cushion of air. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They found Squint floating facedown in the moat, his entrails drifting behind him like a nest of pale snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She did not breathe deeply; she did not need to: the air simply floated towards her, drawn by her natural authority, until there was nothing left for others. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was floating on her back, her legs limp and broken. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They grew more numerous, then floating seaweed told of land not far ahead. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then she saw the pale crescent moon, floating high above the grass, and it came to her that this was no more than her moon blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was floating on a river of light. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

To expand his lung capacity, he ran to the public pool at Redondo Beach, dove to the bottom, grabbed the drain plug, and just floated there, hanging on a little longer each time. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

A couple of drunks and wild teenagers had drowned there, and people at the Owl Club said when their bodies floated back to the surface, they’d been literally boiled. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because quantifiers like both and either have a disconcerting habit of floating around the sentence, the phrases that come after them may end up nonparallel, and that grates on the ear. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He turns to what he thinks is Lucas Cader to find none other than the Lazarus woodpecker seemingly floating beside him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In another display there’s a jar of twins, real dead identical human twins with their placenta attached, gray-skinned, floating in something that looks like dishwater. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he got Ethel floated over the county line, it was all in the day’s work. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps organisms that float in dense planetary atmospheres will be very much like us in their atomic composition, except they might not have bones and therefore not need much calcium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By mining the forests upstream for firewood and floating the logs downriver to the city, they were removing ground cover and increasing the likelihood of catastrophic floods. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The little sunlit islands floated away, and it was dark. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Ratliffs own the moon that floats over the lake, and the sun and the clouds. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in this instance, hindsight does not make us clairvoyant so much as blind to the ghosts and goblins that floated above the political landscape in the 1790s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A whole crowd of merpeople was floating in front of the houses that lined what looked like a mer-version of a village square. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My parents have floated a few mental-illness buzzwords, but only in the vaguest way. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Spray from the rapids is floating in the air. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Dad’s words from earlier floated back to me. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nel’s call floated up and into the window, pulling her away from dark thoughts back into the bright, hot daylight. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But when I climb into that leafy cradle, it’s like floating on treetop mist. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

In Jerusalem so much old anger floated around, echoed from fading graffiti, seeped out of cracks. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But tonight, as I lay in my bed with my mosquito net floating like a ghost around me, I did not hear any laughing. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I found myself floating slowly down toward the ground,” Heiberg recalled, “with all our equipment, twelve huge containers, floating down through the moonlight behind us, and the plane disappearing westwards.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment, he spotted a plank, a foot wide and sixteen feet long, floating in the sideyard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The orange float sat motionless in the water. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Tiny tendrils float away from him as he talks to me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The oar I intended to use as a club floated. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I let go of the towel pillowed under my head, and my arm drifted off the bench to float weightless in midair. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She floated above them, gazing down neutrally, absently braiding them with other preoccupations. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Lilian’s favorite piece, the Moonlight Sonata, floated through the darkness, eerie, distorted, out of tune. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Of my mother I remember next to nothing, only hard eyes that seemed to float like relics in her forehead, and her voice, so queer and feathery. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany had freed the slaves, yet palanquins, litters, and sedan chairs still choked the I streets as before, and none of them floated magically through the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The beavers floated beside their lodge and stared at the bizarre sight with open mouths until Mr. Beaver slapped his broad tail on the water, which meant “Stop right there!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I walked behind August in my bee veil, I felt like a moon floating behind a night cloud. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His words lifted her up from her seat, and at the edge of the clearing the moonlight path still floated. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bright flower of flame blossomed against the bruise-dark clouds, and the craft drifted down slowly, ablaze like a beacon, and floated, still blazing, on the water. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taran saw a creature which, at first glance, looked like a bundle of sticks with cobwebs floating at the top. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was not driving; he was simply sitting and floating along smoothly through darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The dust they stirred floated up and hung in front of the sun that was dipping behind the hills. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered a boy at the Home telling her about learning to float. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

More cloud bubbles rose, floated around us, and burst into joy. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was spooky, like seeing a ghost floating facedown in the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was raised in a gaunt house with a garden; my earliest recollections are of floating lights in the apple-trees. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t scared, only numb, and felt as if I was floating upward, toward the sky. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On the river floated a deserted canoe in which spirogyra had grown. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fiona gnawed through it, which was disgusting since this string had actually passed through the cracks between my teeth on several occasions and, more recently, had floated in a pan of butter. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

For a long while Jimmy Cross lay floating. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My legs and torso followed suit, and I pushed my foot against the pool’s edge, which sent me floating in no fixed direction. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then several of them climbed into a small boat that rocked and tossed in the waves of the large water, and they rowed out to the floating house in the distance. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tanker was huge, one of the workhorses of the oil age, almost a floating city in itself. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The turtle floated lazily at the surface, blinking up at the sun. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They believed that children float on logs in the heavens until the spirits of pregnant women claim them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Monet’s, they serve them with tiny marshmallows floating on top. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I’m floating.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And the raft floated away, the sounds of the singing faded, and the gulls swooped and screeched as if they were announcing a death in the town. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She spread her palms, and what floated there was not a globe or some other fantastic visual. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I drank some chocolate milk and then lay down on the sofa in the living room, not really sad, just floating, trying to imagine what it was to be dead. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lazy smile floated over his narrow face. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three hundred or so chickens floating in the big steel tank of ice water. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Do you think something’s going to float up and take you?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The northern sunshine seemed to pick up faint particles of whiteness floating in the air and powdering the sleek blue sky. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gray smoke floats to the sky and white ashes fall on us like powder. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty great trees furnished the wood, all very dry so that they would float high. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite slowly, the topmost bubble rose up through the neck of the jar and floated away. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boat’s rope must be floating deep, loose inside the water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was a strange sensation to float in the total darkness, suspended by a cobweb’s light touch, with no pressure anywhere on my body. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they stood there at sea in the fog, floating, and locked their hands together. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Between a third and a half of the American people, he guessed, had been indifferent and floated with the prevailing tide of the moment. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mothers had called in their children from the group games, and fading sounds of “Yah . . . Yah . . . you didn’t catch me” still hung and floated into the Store. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prosperity this engendered was one of the cushions on which the Enlightenment floated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Once I’m safely on the other side, a tiny metal drone floats over to where I’m standing. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But on the other hand, we’d been floating in a rowboat for most of the day. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She started to float out in the cloud of noise and energy created by people who affected the world, and was surprised to hear someone say her name. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The trick, apparently, is to keep as much air in your lungs as possible—the more you breathe, the more you float. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“A lot of ducks were put in the lagoons yesterday, and they are floating around contentedly and quite like life this morning.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hannon sits up on the left side of the float and flicks the whip to show where I’m to sit on the right side. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Pascal’s new hydraulics is an extension of his vacuum experiments, but Galileo’s work on floating bodies is not path-specific in this way. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The raft was sheet steel with large buoyancy floats on each end. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“My own fault, really. This world is built on the power of story, boy. Seems my story is intertwined with this here floating death palace. Cotton and the Maafa.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The face of O’Brien, not called up by any obvious association, had floated into his mind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps ten minutes later a boat floated down the serene surface of the canal, a tall lank man with black hair poling it along with leisurely drives of his arms. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morning light slanted in, picking out floating particles of ash. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

While the other kids finished their sums, a thought floated between the twins: what did they think of Miss Bell? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gave the coffin lid a yank, sending another waft of odor floating up. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They wore blue jeans and shimmering green T-shirts, and their brown hair floated loose around their shoulders as minnows darted in and out. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Coalwood Women’s Club built a float for the Veteran’s Day parade in Welch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s dress floated around her legs, and the cool air spun between her hands as she waved them above her head. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A giant wooden raft the size of a boxing ring floated in the night sky, a rope dangling over its edge. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I was waving my hand this way and that, because in front of me floated a small bird with horns and colorful paper-thin wings. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were figures of pelicans floating in the water and flying, of dolphins, whales, sea elephants, gulls, ravens, dogs, and foxes. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not bad, he thought, though he noticed a dead fruit fly floating on the top. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Could she really float—or row—all the way to freedom? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I entered I held my head up and smiled, and then I floated down to the chair in front of them, clasped my hands on my lap, and smiled some more. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The raft sank lower and pitched and rolled, the tips of the oars dipping underwater, but it floated robustly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think badly of him,” she told me in a distant, floating voice. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of white, crisscrossing ropes in the air, layered on top of each other, seeming to float. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

High above her floated a small, gray patch of evening sky. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Some floated in and died on the shore and others I killed with my spear since they were suffering and could not live. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then another miracle floated through that Sunday school window and settled on my shoulder and nudged me to say, “I shouldn’t have kicked and shoved you like I did, Audrey. I’m sorry.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

That feeling that being with Irene kept giving me when I least expected it again floated up in me like a hot-air balloon and I looked away. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Collision with a floating mine might ex­plain explosion, but seems fanciful, besides highly unlikely as sinking started at stem, which in all likelihood would mean that hull breach was at stem too. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And yet Galileo realized, not only that ice was lighter than water, but also—it must have been an extraordinary shock—that bodies often float without displacing their own weight in water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You remember that day last summer we floated the Madison canyon?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, greasy black smoke floated through the sky, smelling of burning pitch. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

And worse, the teeth had braces, bands of corroded scummy metal with pieces of fish and driftwood and floating garbage stuck between them. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Boys everywhere called themselves Ali, and emulated his “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee” routines. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the glass doors of his den 1 looked out to see a few dead leaves floating on the water of his swimming pool. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took to huddling on the float before and after workouts, talking about what, precisely, they could do to make each row better than the one before, looking one another in the eye, speaking earnestly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her voice was strong and fine as silk, rustling at the edges, and it rose over them as the pyre floated into the fog, fire and black smoke melting into the mist. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And when they saw the great golden peach floating past them not fifty yards away in the sky, they gave a yelp of surprise and dropped their shovels to the ground. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

A pool table, lit from above by a single yellow bulb, seemed to float over the sticky tile floor between the music and the liquor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The confession hovered in the air a moment, before floating away with the smoke rising from her cigarette. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Crystal bowls of light pink ice cream floated into Mini’s and Aru’s hands. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A backstay floated dangling from it, stout rawhide rope, and I used this for lashing mast and keel together. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He points to something that’s floating, moving forward and backward with the rolling surf—a dark outline in the rolling water, visible for only moments between waves. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It floated off my tongue like the beginning of a fairy tale. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We traveled by bus to the famous White Palace, a wonder built of white marble so unearthly it floated like a cloud. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were twenty-six horse-drawn floats, six golden chariots, ten marching bands, and six mounted brigades. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Each canoe was tested; a few did not float well and had to be fixed. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he was at the marina the next morning when I stopped by to see the salvage crew float the Coral Queen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden and appalling hush; eyes floated uncomfortably, not knowing where to look. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In case this moment, like a trail of cloud, floats away. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

They floated aimlessly, until one by one they were slowly sucked into the intake screen of our air-conditioning system. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the seas rush over her and she floats underwater with wide-open eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My boy’s floating around in our tub all day long. I can’t hardly get in my own bathroom no more.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scratched writing on my cupboard wall floats before me, left by an unknown woman, with the face of Moira. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bad heart floats in her body like an eye, an evil eye, it sees me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

From far back in the flinty hills, the monotonous call of a hoot owl floated down in the silent night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thin strata cloud, white and harmless, floated in the southeast. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were handed over to their mother fast asleep, floating on this fiction. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My vision blurs in and out of focus as I strain to make the two moons floating up in the sky into one. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are not terrified astronauts floating in an endless atmosphere—they are just four ordinary explorers here on earth. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then she would float on her back and put the abalone on her breast and strike it again and again with the rock until the shell was broken. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that, I’m drifting back down the hall, out to the street, off to Duane Reade, floating and stinking and smiling, off to the Mitchum deodorant aisle, a grown-up in New York City. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Colin looked at me and grinned, causing my stomach to sort of float inside my body. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She imagined a colorful extravaganza with bands and floats and thousands of marchers from all over the country, an event so bold and beautiful that it would demand notice from federal legislators. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was panting, as after a strenuous exertion, but floating, without effort. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The rest of our family and friends are asteroids and comets floating around the planets orbiting the Sun. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The air filled with screeches and floating white fluff. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A few more leaves float down to the grass. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Put himself on the board for the Strawberry Festival Association, judged the floats, helped barbecue the salmon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Gabriel floated and spun within the veer, being part of evil, feeling the anguish and loneliness of it, of having been cast out again and again throughout history. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We wear seven different colors, to designate our jobs. As a maintenance technician, my deck jersey, float coat, and helmet are an ugly green, the color of overcooked peas.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Still, there was just as much money, maybe even more, floating around. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started to work the raft out of the mud and float it free when he thought of something. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the kickoff, hundreds of purple and gold balloons dreamily floated into the sweet, gorgeous night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly ahead, drifting toward her and swinging around to present a tempting plump target, was one of the Lannister hulks, floating low in the water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Story Box burned with light so bright it seared my vision and left behind floating dots of color. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Helmuth is intrigued by the sinking ship, by the drowning sailor who clings to the naval flag, by the debris floating about. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The murmur of their voices floated up into the dying light. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her smile felt like it was going to burst off her face and float away. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I thought this tavern was on a floating barge like the others,” she whispered. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The guy in the Nazi parachute screamed as he floated down in flames and landed in the water with a loud hiss. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There it seemed to Frodo that he descried far off, floating as it were on a shadowy sea, the high dim tops and broken pinnacles of old towers forlorn and dark. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Dust motes floated in the air as a serving girl filled two green glass cups for Ser Jorah and the widow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A slow, lazy breeze floated through the grasses. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to be getting anywhere, so once again I floated back across the room and entered the body of Rex Reese. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“The mayor just announced your float won first place.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crossed right in front of me without seeing me and floated into the pastry shop on the Plaza de Armas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw bodies wrapped in newspaper floating above the sidewalks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the wetness in the clouds condensed into tiny drops half mist and half rain, which floated downward rather than fell, making a soft rustling patter among the millions of needles. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was only a little puddle of water with floating lemon peels at the bottom of the bowl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It will be like floating in a pool, drifting off until there’s nothing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Maya asks, hanging on tight to her mom’s hand, like she could levitate and float away. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He floated above, weightless, watching his human self labor and writhe. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It’s just getting closer and bigger, but sort of sliding out of the way too, out towards the edge...as if it’s just going to float past and behind my head.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Over his head floats his name, level, and Phoenix Riders Captain. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As it floated up and out of the shape on the floor, I smelled the scent of lemon and pine. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Another strand of hair floated in front of Anya as she realized what it actually was. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Wouldn't it be better, sir, to grab a piece of the floating wood even if it means letting go of the flag? This way, you might live to fight another day for your country." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes had passed and the smell of baking cookies had started to sneak from the oven door and float around the kitchen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It could not fly, it could not float, because all its swan-ness had been taken away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Lavalas, wash us like beans. Help us find the wicked and throw them out” She scooped the rotten beans off the surface where they floated, and pitched them out the door. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The astronauts float around inside the space shuttle’s cramped quarters, where there is no gravity. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s called that because that’s how corpses float. You have to float before you can swim.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A woman floated into his line of vision, and he watched her with concern. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Shay danced, shifting her weight back and forth on the floating board, dodging imaginary obstacles. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A smoky blue haze floated over the treetops. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The words I’m afraid to see their resumes float above the attendant’s head. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

With her hand, when the float was level again, she wiped away a flat, wet band of hair from her eyes, and reported, “I just saw one.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, floating about two and a half feet off the ground, lying wrapped in a tight little ball with her nose tucked under her tail, was a small black-and-white border collie—dozing in midair. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She’s so obviously in love with him I expect to see heart bubbles floating around the room. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We went to sleep to a cacophony of crickets, their chirps floating through the windows. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I could practically see the happiness floating above her like a halo. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the floating silk swirls of the departing women. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sarai floated it softly into the dark valley of his shoulder blades and as soon as it touched skin, she slipped into his dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her body felt weightless, and she seemed to float down the path to the gate. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Way back when the creek had water in it, I came floating down it in a wicker basket waterproofed with pitch. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

With each attempt he floated a little higher and a little longer, and finally Brightbill really did soar. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Apparently, all my adjectives are lost in this haze of wonder I’m floating around in. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She drank down a big cup of goldenrod tea every morning, with a nutmeg floating in it, and declared she didn't need no other medicine. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All ten serpents turned belly-up and floated dead in the water. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The city would be the hot zone, and the floating ship would be the gray area, the place of refuge for the doctors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It did. There was close to a ton. It still makes me sick when I think of all those bananas floating away and going to waste when they were mine for the picking.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was too tired now to even chuckle at Mrs. Lee’s shirt—navy blue with a bunch of otters wearing space helmets, floating in a star-filled sky with the words “Otter Space” underneath. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It felt good to close her eyes and float, knowing she could rest as long as she liked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the sound of the voice that floated down to me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then the young man picked her up and laid her down on her stomach on the float. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She succeeded in convincing Santa Sofía de la Piedad that she had found him floating in a basket. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Only the Third Gate remained, a crystal doorway floating in the air above the crater where the castle had stood a moment before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Matthew added, “I’ve got to go number one. My teeth are floating.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the tent, people toss them at each other like snowballs, though instead of breaking they bounce off of their targets, floating gently down. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s Willowdean,” I mutter, but she doesn’t hear me because Morgan, the too-old-to-be-in-college-too-young-to-be-your-mom store manager, floats out from the break room. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The wonton soup smells wonderful with delicate sprigs of cilantro floating on top. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some of us get to float around on one of them and call it home. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Clouds float down between the steep green mountains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The river’s starting to bend and I keep on floating down it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

My boat is right where I left it, floating upright and waiting for me, ready for the journey. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes, and images from the Warden's cabin floated inside his head: her red fingernails, Mr. Sir writhing on the floor, her flowered makeup kit. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She had wanted a big party to celebrate Buchis birth, and he had floated through that day, a bubble of air between him and the party. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Most likely it had gone out with the tide and floated downriver. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It has islands the size of countries and masses of floating vegetation the size of islands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had floated in the ocean with whales. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Tongues of fog oozed across the water and curled around the bits of ice that floated past. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a stick or an oar to propel the raft, but the rotted thing jerked into motion by itself, floating slowly at first, then picking up speed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He felt, looking out at the muggy darkness farther away, as if he could float, and all he needed to do was to let himself go. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The lifeboat briefly floated in a sea of fruit. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“All those names and the black surface. It’s like looking in a mountain pond at night, but with the names floating on it.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sky darkened, but we floated in a milky whiteness that seemed to hold the plane suspended above Puerto Rico. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Gael, come here. Why don’t you two show them your dance for the Mexican Independence Day parade? We have a float that features our dancers every year.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

My upper body floats easily in the water, pulling my feet up from the bottom. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s Asher, the team’s captain, who is the farthest from where I’m floating. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In an early unpublished text from the 1590s he sought to demonstrate that Archimedes’ principle, that a body floats when it displaces its own weight in water, is necessarily true. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And then we were onto this whole thing, about Coke fights, and Coke floats, and Coke promotions, and we went on and on and on, but Violet didn’t say anything else, just sat there silently. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silently they floated in on the town, but when their icy eyes sighted the first dead fish, first bits of garbage about the ships and wharves, they began to scream and quarrel. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not floating in water, but slouched on its side at the bottom of the well, zipper still open just an inch, just enough for Gulliver to breathe. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Beyond there glimmered far away, as if floating on a grey cloud, the white head of tall Methedras, the last peak of the Misty Mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Adrienne comes back, holding what looks like a glass of frothy milk with brown and green stuff floating in it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It thickened as it whirled into a shape that floated in the darkness. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He had never seen the godswood like this, though—grey and ghostly, filled with warm mists and floating lights and whispered voices that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A green balloon floats past a power line, then gets tangled in a tree. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The spray floated over and misted my cheeks while I counted on my fingers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fourth stretcher, no doubt bearing Ron, was already floating at his side. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Alice had picked up a leaflet that had floated to the pavement, read the words, and shifted her weight at the curb. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they floated out and floated back in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finished eating, Liam set both of our bowls in one of the many plastic tubs floating by. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A man appeared above the porch, floating in the air—a blond dude in a white toga, with sunglasses and a cocky smile. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And still the canoe floated on, and still Lyra slept, and still they felt no hunger. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

All her cares fell away from her, and all her pains as well, and she seemed to float upward into the sky. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

These towers, joined together by what looked like floating arches, were emblazoned with countless embellishments and statues that seemed as real as life. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he let it go, we watched it float on the air, impossibly strong, impossibly lovely. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He did not bathe himself with the gourd but would plunge into the fragrant waters and remain there for two hours floating on his back, lulled by the coolness and by the memory of Amaranta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It floated on the water, and the breeze tugged it out away from the dock. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He set the lantern on top of the crate—to the mate it seemed to float eerily in midair—and peered at one of the corners. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He knew the answer, though- For twelve days now the ship had floated becalmed in the Gulf of Grief. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their float w as a flatbed International Harvester truck banked in flowers. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean on the boat. I must say, Blackberry, you’re a clever fellow. I remember now that after we’d crossed that other river you said that that floating trick might come in handy again sometime.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing I saw was a large black object floating in the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be floating. j\\lore alive than he’d ever been, and floating. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Midges swarmed in the air, and a dragonfly floated over the stream, darting here and there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My eyes float between looking at my mother and looking at the protestors. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Candles flickered on a small altar, and the woody smell of incense floated in the air. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His large round face with its wide-set eyes leered down at me like a giant floating balloon that I’d seen in a Thanksgiving Day parade. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

From two separate locations on the Giulia's deck, Lefty and Desdemona—and I can say it now, finally, my grandparents—watched the airy blanket float away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I wish they could see me on Thursday after school when I’m on the float and Mr. Hannon hands me the reins so that he can smoke his pipe in comfort. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed, the reversion to a strict shift system dispelled the sense of floating timelessness of those first twenty-four hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She sinks and floats to the top with a smile. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Darwin's “gemmule” theory—that hereditary instructions were thrown adrift by all cells and then floated in the blood, like a million messages in bottles—suggested that blood transfusions might transmit gemmules and thereby alter heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

That night she served asopao with a solid dark ball floating on top of each of our bowls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

As we watch the Barang float on his back in the water, Keav chides Chou for giving me the wrong information. means he’s French. but they can be from many other countries, including America. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she spun back around to face me, suspended and floating, smiling and holding out her hand, beckoning me to join her. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Up and up they went, high above the highest clouds, the peach swaying gently from side to side as it floated along. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The little pier was connected to a floating shed that had to be a boathouse. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It felt like I could float all the way to town. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was a pop, and a little man with wicked, dark eyes and a wide mouth appeared, floating cross-legged in the air, clutching the walking sticks. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Glass, pieces of Sheetrock, broken furniture, cups, nail polish, pans, hair brushes, mirrors, bottles, plates, rugs, clothes—almost everything imaginable floated in streams of water from apartments that looked like flooded basements. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then he listened; a faint sound of piano music floated to him from somewhere. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were two bodies floating in space, brighter than stars. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But really I was floating into the air. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Making them float in the air before straightening them on the floor. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But I knew that die wood floating up on the beach consisted mostly of branches or stumps that had been in the water for weeks or months. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her followed nine bands, four mounted brigades, more than twenty floats, and more than five thousand marchers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

From the moon, he argued, one would have the illusion that the moon was stationary and that the Earth floated through the sky. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The boys backed the Husky Clipper into their starting stall, on a floating platform that had been specially built for the Olympic trials, and waited. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Another, more alarming thought floats into my brain. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth to protest my innocence—and stopped when I noticed a cup floating toward me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She pulled rings from behind our ears and rubber spiders from a bowl floating with gardenias. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we floated closer to the lights, we could make out Luno’s gloating expression. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I pushed it along the dock until it floated behind the houses and there was nothing in front of me but black water, and in the distance, mountains. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But when she felt the corpse floating beside her, she started pulling Pita out of the water as if she were a sopping Raggedy Ann doll. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them, and all three turned toward it, toward the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, without the slightest warning, it became the shimmering, flickering spot of light, floating in the darkness ahead of him. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Above me the rockets and parachute-lights shoot up and float down again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Additional fact: if you relax, your body’s buoyancy will cause you to float. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There are tiny bugs floating dead in the water; others are skimming, still alive. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

From far off at the other side of the tilting ground the sergeant’s voice came floating on the still air. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be in the trough at the eejit pens, floating in yellow sludge. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island forced us into a narrow channel on the east side of the river, and we floated underneath sycamore trees leaning out over the water in search of more sunlight. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He reached up to grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

If he was floating atop water shared with the lake, surely fish had been swept into the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny drone but as before it didn’t register, then suddenly, roaring over his head low and in back of the ridge a bush- plane with floats fairly exploded into his life. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Purple snowcapped mountains marched off in either direction, with clouds floating around their middles like fluffy belts. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A sliver of moon, like the white crescent of a thumbnail, floated in the dim. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a little crowded, especially when the little ones added their boats and floating dinosaurs, but it was fun and warm and yelpy and soapy. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fiery shingles floated from the roof and caught in the branches of the tree outside my window, setting the bark ablaze. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aircraft was equipped with wheels rather than floats and thus couldn’t land, but McCunn was certain he’d been seen and had no doubt the pilot would summon a floatplane to return for him. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pushing open the doors, I see the yellow balloon floating, its string tied tightly to the vase. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When Leo woke, he wondered if he was a ghost in another flashback, because he was floating weightlessly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His figure stood out grotesquely and his face, deformed by the light from below, floated halfway to the ceiling, while his giant shadow danced against the walls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not kidding, the woman seems to float everywhere, as if she’s too posh to walk like all of us peasants. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The giant peach swayed gently from side to side as it floated along, and the hundreds of silky white strings going upward from its stem were beautiful in the moonlight. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The left side of his face was swollen, like heti swallowed a balloon and it still floated beneath the skin. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He spotted a huge bale of cotton floating close by. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Leaves of unraveling newspaper blow into the rank water that runs in an open ditch; the newspaper wheels along the street, scattering its sheets onto the water, where they float as translucent squares of lace. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scenery was altered in only one regard: the long summer of drought had dramatically lowered the level of the lake, exposing brown earthen banks and leaving the floating dock high, dry, and useless. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Remembering the boar from the floating island—shot clean between the eyes—he obeyed, unbuckling his holsters and letting them drop—Executioner and all—beside the Lady of Mercy. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, concentrating on the cool air floating around me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

You come across clumps of ’em floated together sometimes, or caught snagged on a bramble. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They tell themselves it’s okay to give up, because love should be like the shows on TV, where you float uncontrollably on the smell of the other’s perfume. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

All royal authority seems to have ceased on the land, and the governors preside only over their floating town and this sickly island. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I rode up there with her, wearing Grandpa Dowdel’s wedding suit because Ray wouldn’t ride on a float. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A substantial human presence on Jupiter itself is much more difficult to imagine—although I suppose great balloon cities permanently floating in its atmosphere are a technological possibility for the remote future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wide wooden ramp ran from the sliding doors down to a long dock floating parallel to the shore of the Cut. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But the day my mom floated into my room, she was anything but miserable. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There were some small pieces and bits of paper floating on the surface inside the plane— dirt from the floor of the plane that had floated up—but nothing substantial. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore her silvery hair tied back, but strands were always coming loose and floating around her. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His shoes were still floating around in his living room at home; his socks had been ripped off in his ride through the flood. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly an idea rises to the surface, floats in front of Helmuth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the Beta Capsule, floating just a few centimeters above the ground, spinning clockwise. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Murmurs of conversation floated through the room, but to Thomas they seemed to come from another world. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She moved probably a little like Jack, a little unapparently, she probably just seemed to get from one place to another, floating majestically through her life until the day the internist informed them otherwise. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy and his allies had destroyed the worst Titan, Kronos, but even his remains might be down here somewhere—a billion angry Titan particles floating through the blood-colored clouds or lurking in that dark fog. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The last remaining strands of Charlotte’s old web floated away and vanished. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was a man not much older than she was, with salt-and- pepper hair, floating behind the large circular countertop in the center of the room. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

For several years he floated from one crisis to another until the overdose death of a close friend motivated him to crawl his way back to sobriety. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She swings, but I float like a butterfly and sting like Ali. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In a world without ears there would be no sounds, only vibrations; in a world without noses there would be no smells, only particles floating in the atmosphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Louie floated left and settled into the second tier of runners. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Everything else is ambiguous. Everything else is emotions and hunches. At least the facts you can cling to; the emotions just float away.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I find myself floating above a spectacular, ruined city surrounded on all sides by walls of colorful coral. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dodging flying missiles, floating dangers, avoiding stepping in holes and warmed on the wind now at their backs until they gained comparatively dry land. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Laila liked the violet plastic drinking glasses they used and the quarter lemon that always floated in the water pitcher. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were bits of old speeches floating about, as well as recited lessons, gunshots from old wars, babies’ cries, auto horns, waterfalls, electric fans, galloping horses, and a great deal of everything else. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

June bugs flickered all around, and music notes floated from inside, sounding like a violin, only a lot sadder. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look back at the attic overflowing, filled with floating wood and memories. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Out in deeper water we floated on our backs and the sun on my upturned face was drying the last of the water trickling into my mouth. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I jumped in and let all the sweat from choring and riding Flapjack float off of me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

After a long time of floating on the land and a short time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was colder here than up in the main castle, and would have been quite creepy enough without the pickled animals floating in glass jars all around the walls. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was a glorious autumn day, and if you looked up as you swung, it gave you the feeling of floating. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Instead of getting trampled I simply floated like a stick in a river, carried along on everyone else’s power. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drizzle floats over the hilltop and the sky gets cloudier. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Pieces of the sun were tearing off and floating toward them, trailing long ribbons of light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was still in the water when she was already lying flat on her stomach on the float. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

A flock of fairies twinkles past like floating Christmas lights, their laughter like tinkling bells. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Kelp floating in packs past the small swells. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He took some wax, mixed it with iron filings and shaped it into a ball: when he had the mixture right it floated just below the surface of the water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I spend Thursday floating through classes in a fog. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But it was gone, the memory slipping away like a leaf floating down the river. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Our canoes floated back downstream, swirling in the wake from the dam’s discharge vents. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The paper floated in the air like a white butterfly and landed in my father's lap. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Between them a rowboat floated in the black water, held by a rope knotted around a rusty hook. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the parachutes finally opened, the men floated toward the ground, still unable to see anything around them. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louder it seemed to ring in my ears, and the floating motes of dust to take new shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

At dawn he started with a chosen few and for the first time a boat filled with armed men floated on the Tiber. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie was surprised how easy it was to catch the fruit flies that floated up from the bowl. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She was naked and held a bundle in her arms, and she walked as people do in dreams, with the shimmering green halo floating out around her body. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stood puzzling, three daisies floated through the air. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the bee jar still clutched in my hand and saw a teaspoon of teardrops floating in the bottom. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I floated, and instead of going on I felt myself slide back. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Screams died in them and floated belly up, like dead fish. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents were puppets, animated before her, and Pet was turning its head slowly, as if it could smell how quickly she was floating away. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Along the bay, paddleboarders balance, pushing forward with oars while cormorants float around them. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Like tiny specks of floating dust, people hang from their harnesses far above, cleaning the ceiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Threads of smoke floated up from a filterless cigarette whose coal burned dangerously near his fingertips. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I only know that my soul floated with the holiness of prayer into the sky of dreams. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We end up following Abby to the teacher parking lot, where a bunch of student council people have assembled around the junior class float. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

When it was just the two of us floating down the highway, he was mellow, lighthearted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Imagining her floating from the grace of the day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They floated through the broken dome and down into shadows. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Out of the floating material that was left over, two microscopic grains floated close enough together to be joined by electrostatic forces. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Emma and I sat down just as the curtain opened, revealing a straw boater hat floating atop a gaudy red-and-white striped suit. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Voldemort swept from the room without a backward glance, and the great serpent floated after him in its huge protective sphere. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Laura began to float away on the music, and then she heard a clattering noise, and there was Ma by the stove, getting breakfast. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish had disappeared and the young otter was asleep, floating on its back. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards out, a shimmering white figure floated on the water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really–” she starts to say but we hear a door close and a singsong daddy, daddy, daddy floating down the hall toward us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

With a millisecond to spare, he’d summoned the winds and avoided becoming a floating patch of demigod grease on the surface of the Adriatic. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The trio walked quickly, and Nailer almost lost them twice amongst the thump of workers and crew on the floating docks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus’s shadow floated back and forth across the tile floor, but he didn’t try to open the stall. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The floating statues remind me of God’s promise. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The package floated off the table and disappeared with a pop! The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had his eyes raised upwards as if we were floating above him in the air. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silver lily pads with ruby-red flowers floated on the surface of the water. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had been floating lazily in the Lake of Heavens. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He stopped when Newt did, right next to the massive wall towering above them like a skyscraper—another random image that floated in the murky pool of his memory wipe. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Renovated the whole thing, did all the woodwork and stained glass herself. Incredible, isn’t it? Two stories, three bedrooms, two baths, great kitchen, skylights, wraparound decks on both floors. It’s a floating paradise.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That just before he went and stubbed his toe, I was actually floating? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Flaming paper floated down and landed on my hair and shoulders. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sends another gift: A ragged old sheet comes floating down. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

One of the car’s tires had come off and was floating in a backwater eddy of the Cocytus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Pattie makes soup that is cloudy white with curly pieces of green onion floating on top. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He pushed away the thought of the math assignments in his satchel, floated on his back, and watched wispy white clouds chase each other across the wide blue sky. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It floats just below the upper border of the screen. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“So in an unstable composition, I could have Lil floating away to New Zealand.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A vision of her best friend floated across Jam’s mind: his smile, his wrapped hands after fight training. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“We are floating beautifully. And sooner or later a ship is bound to come along and pick us up.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

For a split second Wormtail gazed into the apparently empty cellar, ablaze with light from the three miniature suns floating in midair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

On several occasions they would get into the pool to soap him from head to toe as he floated on his back thinking about Amaranta. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Not here. If a float has my mark, the trap below has my lobster. And no funny business.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Packets of tea were floating in the folds of the crumpled mainsail that hung down through the top hatch, staining the water in brown clouds. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That, too, was perfectly smooth, and, like the entirety of the citadel, it floated, held in place not by ropes or chains but some unfathomable force. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Around our sloop-of-war lay a great confusion of ships, a floating town. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I floated free, and slept at the homes of my mom’s friends as much as in my own bed. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I lifted us off and we floated down the street. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He poured in water until he reached the exact moment when the wood began to float. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Miles hummed past before his voice floated back to her. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Talis smiled and snapped another picture of Seven, Valley, and Thorn as they got off their parade float, which had been shaped like an enormous Nightbeast. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As Boomer runs off to chase a stick floating down the stream, I draw Gram’s sweater tight around me, settle into the nook of Throne Rock, and begin to read. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And with this light, Minli saw that the sky below her had somehow become a vast lake of pure water and the night clouds were made of floating lilies. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When he found their floating shop in Coal Harbour, he told the Pococks that he planned to establish a veritable rowing navy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I thought about my white, bloated corpse floating in Puget Sound. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A flock of pelicans floated over us in the shape of a V and kept on flying, straight toward the great Gulf of Mexico. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

It rained so much that night that the creek flooded into the dirt streets, making the cabins look like they floated on a lake. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As evening drew in, and moths began to swoop under the canopy, now lit with floating golden lanterns, the revelry became more and more uncontained. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Someone’s voice seemed to call to him, and soon he found himself in the arms of an angel, floating high above a burning city. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The flippers and life jacket keep me floating on the surface and it only takes a few minutes for me to get used to breathing through the mask. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If the stone floats,” he said, “you will live forever. If it sinks, you will die.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He lifted his arms over his head, stretched up, and floated them slowly to his hips, where they stayed as if he were posing for a picture. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hannon says we’re lucky today because some houses get more than one and he doesn’t have to be climbing on and off that float destroying his legs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He knew that soon it would either burst or the string would break, and his life would float away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

To keep the can from floating she weighed it down with a wrench. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He catches a long toss from me, cups the football under his arm and points to this buoy floating out past the waves. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

That she seemed to float back and forth like a ghost, dipping cool cloths to lay on Popo’s bloated face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bananas on which she floated were held together by the nylon net with which they had been lowered into the ship. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He kept his pants on—they were not so heavy—and entered the river, pushed away from the bank until he was far enough out to start floating a bit. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Where I floated, under the dark water, I heard the happiest sound my mind could conjure up — as beautiful, as uplifting, as it was ghastly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The paper slipped from his fingers and, almost as if it were a fish, floated over his face. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“But he had trouble choosing a room to read in. So I made sure his bed could float anywhere and books could be brought to him.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She took good long whiffs of the wonderful essence of detergent and clean dacron-cotton which floated down with the petticoat. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The damaged limb floated inside, cushioned by saline solution that had to be at exactly the right temperature. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the beach the hungry dogs and the hungry pigs of the town searched endlessly for any dead fish or sea bird that might have floated in on a rising tide. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It swirled and floated back and joined the rain sound that the Thug and Dirty Deed kept going. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tufts of goat hair floated through the air and collected under the furniture in clumps. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Two ballpoint pens with silent streetscapes and red London buses that floated up and down in them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he removes his hands, a copy of the top of the fractal shield floats above the cube. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The chaplain’s voice floated up to him through the distance tenuously in an unintelligible, almost inaudible monotone, like a gaseous murmur. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Potted Ficus floats above a green plant, along with the words, Water | +1, hinting that I would earn a point if I watered it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the car floated away from the bridge he was smiling. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He floated up a moment later, taking what looked like his last breath. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They get in the big pool and float around like a bunch a fishing corks. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

If he were here, he could raise the water level and simply float down. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A warm scoop of peach cobbler floats around in my stomach. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

These are the days when Alcyone broods over her nest floating on the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a baby carriage outside one house, a moped leaning against the wall of another, and voices floated into the street from open windows. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She remained quite still, floating in midair, staring down at him, and a sense of hopelessness engulfed Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And those shared assumptions are usually pretty conservative: we don’t reinvent the world from scratch every time we float a theory. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The boat gently floated back the way she had come. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went out of the back door; a few fine flakes of snow were floating down. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ayanna expanded the raft, we all stepped on board, and we floated through the cleansing curtain and back into the trash compartment. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It took a certain degree of agility, and she was eighty years old, weakened by staying awake for twenty-four hours while floating near her ceiling, thinking only that she might drown in her own home. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There are living creatures falling like rain and objects that float by themselves. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then the lechuzas, all thirteen of them, vanished into thin air, leaving only downy feathers floating innocuously in the rays of the morning sun. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Harry could see the floating skull reflected twice in her enormous, glassy eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It was as if heavy clothes, embroidered with glowing threads of gold and red, had been tossed down by a giant or a god, and were just floating there, on top of the water.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

All kinds of hazardous clutter could be floating in your path—boards, driftwood, coconuts, ropes—and it wouldn’t have taken much to wreck the propeller blades on the old Evinrude. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Black closed his hand around the floating key and said, “I haven’t left the apartment in twenty-four years!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Actually the idea had first floated into his head in the form of a vision of the glass paperweight mirrored by the surface of the gateleg table. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We went on scavenging trips together in the shadow of the floating houses in Barrington. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Olive exclaimed, nearly floating out of her shoes with excitement. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A single word floated back into his mind, and he remembered. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I found it hard to stay at the surface of the water; I was still very weak, and I had litde fat on me to help me float. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s super quiet when Mr. Tobin hangs up, like a thick secret is floating around. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The water was dear but not swift running—the linen did not float too far or too quickly away from my hands. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take all afternoon floating down into the abyss, and he had been very glad to see it at last vanish, with no sound at all, into a forty-foot snowdrift at the bottom. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Leo watched in disbelief as a large wooden raft floated in on the tide and slid to a stop on the beach. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then they stepped into the shell, sat down and laced their feet into the stretchers, pushed off from the float, and started to paddle up the lake toward the starting line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The ship left hundreds of crates floating on the surface. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Down and to the right he saw the amphibious float with the wheels on the side. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured the world, all pretty blue- green and floating out in space, creatures and forests and deserts and cities. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Now I’ll be white like everyone else in Leamy s, no float, no horse, no shillings to bring home to my mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Just before dark on the fourteenth day, they saw a piece of floating kelp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Her hair was combed over one ear, a hairstyle I’ve never liked, and as she walked she gave off a terrible musky scent that floated on the air, as insistent as a moan. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

During these days, in visions or dreams, scenes of home float up to me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was back in the dark, moldy hallway with two torches floating alongside me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to go to school in New York; her guidance counselor had floated the idea of Columbia, but Lexie had heard the area was sketchy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wished I could float over the wood so I wouldn’t make so much noise. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Boots ran back to him with the ball, dryer lint floating in her curls. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then I’ll dream I float up to the stars and hear them whispering to each other. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

But the silty, drippy, turdy timbers lugged up by the floating cranes look nothing like the shining galleon in the paintings. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Just behind the Coalwood float, the Big Creek band marched, with me proudly playing the snare drum, one of five drummers in a line. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t any Good Samaritan beer angels floating around waiting to gift us our weekly Friday buzz. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I am a sea bubble floating, floating in a dream. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Angels are supposed to float about bringing love and goodwill and protection and good fortune, no? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was floating on the water close to the path. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I feel good. I feel a little like ... like I’m floating. Or swaying. How do you feel?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And because, though I knew Arul was right that we had nothing to fear from the dead, a part of me was still scared a ghost might float by. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was simply addressing an age-old question: Why do some bodies float and others sink? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Eventually, she pushed aside the reeds and saw Crocodile Guts’s boat floating right where she had left it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm about to haul my packs into a tree to make camp when a silver parachute floats down and lands in front of me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In summer, the music would float out on the evening air, reaching the neighboring houses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next memory she had was of waking up in that tub six miles from home and pulling a tired old cat from the water she was floating in. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The cobwebs, the mud, the moss and lichen floated away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A decade later, she might have likened their family to astronauts, floating in space; that was how ungrounded they were. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though in confirmation of this, a trumpet call floated from the telescreen just above their heads. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This confirmed his conviction that the planets float freely in space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A sailboat floating on the bright blue sea. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

For a moment I'm scared Rani is still irritated with the woman, but as always, Rani's anger bubble has floated away. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Stepping inside, I breathe a sigh of relief when I see the yellow balloon floating on top of the water, a few feet from the edge. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She had been bicycling through the air, ice cream in her hand and a book floating in front of her face. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she remembers her great-aunt’s hands floating on a white surf of keys, overlapping like gulls in the air. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Countless things have floated up onshore over the years. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But something clicked when the floating voice asked me if my name was Cade. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They floated on over the moonlight-scintillating water, as if they were sharing the same dream. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Every object in the tree house was floating as everything plummeted together. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But it was evidently not the right move, because— Uncalled, a memory floated into his mind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As we folded and stamped all the flyers, I kept talking, telling Liz all about the Christmas float our church was doing. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Garden Club displayed strawberries and fuchsia baskets, and the chamber of commerce awarded trophies for a float competition. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They fell back to the deeper water and floated there in a long line. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Patrick Moore told viewers that they could experience the phenomenon by jumping in the air at the exact moment the alignment occurred. If they did, they would feel weightless, like they were floating.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her hands float on the surface of the sea, still clutching her shoes, as if they could lead her to a new place. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of fresh manure floated out from the fields and took care of my appetite then and there, but Rosaleen said, “I could eat a mule.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We floated in the blackness, bobbing along the waves. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel floated onto the bus, sat down in her usual seat, and pulled out a book. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I reach out and extract one of the fronds floating on the surface. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there, floating in the center of the pond, was an old gray goose. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If you’ll notice,” he says, holding a hand up to the skies, “Jupiter and Pluto are perfectly aligned in relation to earth. It’s the Jovian-Plutonian gravitational chamber. Where everything floats indefinitely.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hiroshi floats away like a phantom, the hem of his white dress trailing behind him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were pages floating everywhere, suspended in the air with magic, and twinkle lights cast a soft, warm glow over everything. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Empty plant seedling trays and irrigation tubes lie stacked on floating shelves. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I have pictured it many times—Hope!—wondering how I would catch such a thing one-handed, if it did come floating down to me from the sky. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even a waterbird floated on its surface. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A giant bag floated behind him, low to the ground. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Or was she floating amongst the trains and masses of Lithuanians, searching for her husband? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As I watched, a third boat floated to the wharf. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floating clouds glowed red with the coming sunrise. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As he drinks, their eyes float up to him through the bottom of the jar, through the slick sweet water. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I dozed and floated on the clouds of Farsi that blew my way from the front seat of Dayi Jamsheed’s SUV. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She tried to press the button on her cloak and floated up, just a bit. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Quackenbush felt mellower by the end of the afternoon as we stood on the float in front of the Crew House, gathering up towels. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked out at a piece of stick floating down on the even two-mile-an-hour current. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

How was a thing this heavy supposed to float? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

If I stare hard enough, it seems as if the seats were simply floating over the ground, with nothing separating us from the outside. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His mind, suddenly impossibly old, floated out of his body and hovered high above him in the air, from where it jabbered useless warnings. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to play? Do you want to play?” he murmured as his eyes closed and the gentle face of the Virgin of Guadalupe floated in the candlelight. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I flipped through them, it looked like the man was floating up through the sky. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For example, if you drop a mostly full bottle of ketchup in the tub, it will not float. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He’s up and down on that float all day hoisting bags of coal and turf, desperate to keep the bandages in place on his legs so the dirt won’t get into the open sores. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were some shouts from the floating pavilion, and I strained to see faces of Amah, Baba, Mama. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glittering mask over her face and the diamonds around her neck were luminous, and her dress seemed to float over the floor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a peculiar floating sensation coming over him, as though he were floating up in the air like a balloon. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

We rescued a big floating plank and carried it up the beach above high-water mark. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Of course: Nearly all the soil of Jackson Park was competent to support floating foundations except the one portion destined to bear the fair’s biggest and heaviest building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The smell of New York City in the heat of early summer floated in the thick air around her: garbage, poverty, ambition. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The way Darkness moved wasn’t really walking or floating. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t even see the cavern roof—just blood-colored clouds floating in the hazy gray air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m so in awe of the floating dust particles in the air, I don’t notice that Courtney has stopped dead just inside the doorway until I smack right into him; he doesn’t budge. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

There, near the fringe of the forest, tall spires of curling black smoke went up, wavering and floating towards them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Esme’s sweet, strong voice floats through the neighborhood as she and Olive climb out of the car. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t know, everything looked like it was going to float away. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he paused at the sight of the apparition floating in midair. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Until on the Day when He says Rise only the flat-iron would come floating up. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was so damp that fish could have come in through the doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The teachers and students wave and their farewells float through the open windows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below, the moon floated and the stars swam. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tiny gray balls float in front of my eyes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Once the skeleton was picked clean, it would begin, often, to float, like seaweed in a quiet tide, shifting this way and that, sometimes surfacing, more often just journeying through the Snow Sand for eternity. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The pump is a modification of Savery’s engine, with a float introduced to separate the steam from the water being pumped. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The word “chimney” here was not an abstraction; it floated in the air, mingled with the smoke. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, there is the implication, floating between the lines of the entire Report, that an authoritative new presence has appeared on the scene and taken charge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When I open my door and look out, I see a thousand little plank-and-cardboard houses floating at every conceivable tilt on an endless ocean of dust. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I jumped in the pool, I was certain I would forget how to float and sink to the bottom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sansa heard it too, floating through the woods, a kind of wooden clattering, snack snack snack. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Here was my friend, floating in his underwear in my pool. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be modifying their usual attitude of floating, chronic disapproval. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bags are delivered and the sun is out, the float is empty, and the horse knows his workday is over. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Argo II still floated over the river a few hundred yards away. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When I dream that I am wire without flesh, there is a letter on blue airmail paper that floats above the night ocean between here and China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man’s voice floated up from the stairwell in the hall. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She let her words float up to the top of the school’s fake blue sky. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, half of the PT boat floated for a while as they hung on to it and made a plan. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The summer of 1958 came, and with it, floating ships of clouds that lazily drifted by, docking sometimes in the afternoon to produce a shower to loosen the dust off the houses and the cars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Suddenly I was free," he remembered, "my body just falling...even better than floating in a swimming pool, I remember thinking." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the many war-themed floats to pass by was called Hitler, the Axis War Monster. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And finally I saw the body of Florence, floating motionlessly in the dark water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words “Meet the Chartreux: French, Quiet & Cute” floated across the cat’s image. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then, to his relief, a voice came floating in through the train’s open door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

We both turned to see a column of floating fire curving through the water toward us, and with every second it picked up speed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A man’s voice floated out from inside and echoed around the clearing, making him sound lonely. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s floating somewhere in the sky—no parachute needed. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

His long red body, stretched to its fullest length, seemed to float in the air as he sailed over it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my phone goes off, chirping away over and over, and the magic of the moment floats away like a balloon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The grasses sway their tall spears; the white butterflies flutter around and float on the soft warm wind of the late summer. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A voice floating in the air scratches a sentence in vuvv and then translates, “Is breakfast included with the double king-size room?” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of black bugs floated between the bubbles. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The white creature floated above like a Zeppelin, all indistinct except what was under the water. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to get the water out and get her back to floating right. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stirred the milk, and beige pellets floated up from the bottom, like sand encased in a shimmery oil that skimmed the top and bubbled around the whirlpool I made with my spoon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone was trying to tell me something, what with me missing the train and the blue flyer floating back to me, maybe Deza Malone was right. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I bowed my head, watched the cherry float around in my glass. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It floats by slowly and reminds me of a riddle Mr. Fazio told me about a boat. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the coffee table, where an option called in-room dining is floating over it. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I followed the gesture and gasped at the sight of a beautiful city that seemed to be floating in the middle of the lake, encircled by a magical mist, bedazzling us with its towering splendor. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can practice going un-muffed with Mom and Dad first, somewhere in between quiet and loud, where noises can float away. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

A simple, clear image floated through his mind. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

His words float above me, but none of them make sense. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Or a group of science people doing research about plankton or the chemicals found in floating seaweed, all these waterproof monitors beeping and flashing next to ’em on deck. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to float away, or to fly outside the window, but I couldn’t. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her long hair was so fine that it trailed her, floating in the air like a cloud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The moon floated on the still black waters, shattering and re-forming as her ripples washed over it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Though each of the others vanished and reappeared like fragments floating round a pool, Pipkin never left him; and his need for encouragement became at last Hazel’s only support against his own weariness. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally floated in silence, looking up at the sky, barely able to see the clouds through her anger. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Some folks swear I throwed up so hard that desks and chairs rose up and floated out of the schoolhouse. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It floated along under them, keeping pace with their feet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alec Bings. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Islands of water hyacinths floated past in the drowsy current. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the watch lifts from the table, floating into the air and hovering as though it were suspended in water. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It came floating down the street towards them, bumping into the housefronts, dull and soft and half submerged. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

If for some reason it did not float, I was as good as dead. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

More wizards were joining the marching group, laughing and pointing up at the floating bodies. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A home with a floating bed, and books that knew when to flip the pages, so you didn’t have to get up from your pillow or move your hand…. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He rose up in the air and floated there, squinting at them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Then, obeying my mother’s floating voice, I hunted for a spot of earth, dug a shallow hole, and buried the stiff kitten; as I handled its cold body my skin prickled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane was gone from the sky and the white plumes of floating smoke were thinly spread, vanishing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And often sound does not quite become a word but suffocates or floats away over me half finished; an arch, a pathway, a comet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was cold and in flood and many things passed that had been floated off the banks when the river rose. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He swallowed the rest greedily, then set the bottle floating in the blackness. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was painful to ride, and her nose also suffered a blow as the continual stench of horse sweat and excrement floated to the back of the entourage. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The parlor looks the same as it always has: two cribs beneath two Latin crosses, dust floating in the open mouth of the stove, a dozen layers of paint peeling off the baseboards. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My entire body felt like it was floating. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Jam slid her hands into her pockets and listened to the crickets hidden in the grass, her earphones floating unused around her neck. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The words float, and gingerly I stand and sit at one of the vacant kitchen chairs. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I want you to believe this rock will float away. Believe it with a faith that will move mountains and shake trees.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The judge unknotted the scarf and let the flowered silk float down around the booty: her father's railroad watch, a pearl necklace, cuff links, a pin and earrings set, a clock. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon and the dark-orange sun floated heavily over the distant mountains. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wine is poured, dark green with pieces of gold floating in it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A pocket of air seemed to float in his chest every time they spoke, a swelling that half annoyed and half thrilled him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Soon enough the dwarfs’ beards were floating in the foam and there was panic in their eyes. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He found her in the courtyard, in the water up to her waist, trying to float the corpse of a horse. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Only a fraction of the Hall of Mirrors reflects her own countenance, and some contain only a shimmering blur of pale-grey gown, or the motion of the billowing ribbons as they float behind her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I let the rip take me, dove down again, up and down, until there was Noah floating faceup, alive, but not conscious. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I wish I had something to eat but there’s nothing in the icebox but cabbage leaves floating in the melted ice. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe a toe here, a nostril there, or a mustache, floating like a little curl of seaweed among the other flotsam. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without the sound of rain, I could just make out the quiet song floating from the car speakers, and Liam’s deep voice as he sang along. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The advisor in Three Kingdoms, for instance, who, needing arrows, floated barges of hay down an enemy-held river. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see beneath them a black-rimmed orange glow against which floated the images of the past—my sons, Ira, the hut where we lived and the fields we had worked. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my time at Healdtown was coming to an end, I had many new and sometimes conflicting ideas floating in my head. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of voices, small and whispery, still floated from the depth of the woods. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A glowing rainbow began to float in the air like ribbons from the tip of the arrowhead. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She had rubbed it with a magnet and then floated it in a dish of water, let it spin this way and that as it slowly settled with its point toward north. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Jilly was up and jumping into the pool, diving down and then resurfacing, her dark-blond hair floating on the water behind her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She’d take a penny and go down to a store on Moore Street that had nothing in it but fat Jew pickles floating around in a heavy spiced brine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seemed to be floating in pure, abstract blackness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I plunged after her, I dove under the wrecked hull of a yacht, wove through a collection of floating metal balls on chains that I realized afterward were mines. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

After Call left, I gave up progging and took over the responsibility of my father’s crab floats. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of music floated through the air as an ice cream truck came around the corner. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In the dusky shadows, Frankie’s eyes were as luminously gold as the constellations of dust motes floating above our heads. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She takes my hand and I think how otters sleep floating on their backs in water, holding hands exactly like this, so they don’t drift apart in the night. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In its place floated a golden orb no bigger than a Ping-Pong ball. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind it in the water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My foot is in my ear and my head is floating away. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Ishmael kept to the middle of the group, swimming and keeping low, breast- stroking, and tried to think of himself as a dead marine floating harmlessly in Betio’s lagoon, a corpse borne by the current. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not a second later, I hear Prentisstown? float in from a field right next to us. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She rolled and floated under water, as if she were a piece of seaweed. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He only floated there in his briefs with his eyes shut, grinning peacefully. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I am a sea bubble floating, floating in a dream. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

If there are floating rocks, I’d push them together to create a bigger platform. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Next came women on floats, on horseback, and on foot. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I suddenly feel light-headed, like I might float right out of my body. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was as if he could see his trumpet and his fine big school go floating away. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble; it was a comforting thing to have words “I hate romance” hanging over her head. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

A floating reception force of more than four thousand Indians—two hundred war canoes, each carrying twenty or thirty people—greeted the Spanish. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The men scanned the water ahead desperately for floating ice to melt and drink, but found none. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She was watching the boat, waiting for it to wander, to float out to sea. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My eyes floated up toward the office until they fixed on Zu waving me over. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, it crashed down, and the draperies floated down to rest placidly by the windows. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the picture, six fighter-bombers float above a mountain range of clouds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She looks up at the rafters, the air, her gaze floating through the timbers like she has forgotten I am even there. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Rays of sun dance through the valley, painting light on the plains even as the floating isles cast patches of shadows; flocks of white birds cry out in formation below us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mother goes off to hunt online for jobs, she says, but I find her half an hour later doing nothing, with a screen floating in front of her, motionless. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her slim, perfect eyebrows came a fraction of an inch closer together, and her hand floated from my shoulder. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Their outraged barks floated back on the evening air. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course they were growing and surviving decades after her death, of course they floated through the air, and of course they’d led to cures for diseases and been launched into space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

You do not agree with my politics but you never have, and there are no new rumors about my distant past floating around. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As she gazed seaward, far off on the water she saw something floating. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whispered numerals and words floated upward from her coral lips, and, closing her eyes, she copied some figures onto a pad of paper. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sure he floated all the way home. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that point, it didn’t even matter that Chloe and I were often standing knee-deep in piles of garbage and filth in the shadow of rich-people floating houses. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s their job to stack the bags on the float while Mr. Hannon goes to the office for the delivery dockets. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The stills looked pretty and very technological as they floated on the water, but they also looked flimsy, and I was doubtful of their capacity to produce fresh water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are snapshots of us having a picnic in the park, posing in new outfits, and floating in a plastic kiddie pool. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A bundle of walking sticks was floating in midair ahead of them, and as Percy took a step toward them they started throwing themselves at him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He spots a sneaker floating near the riverbank. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Swimming isn’t an option with an injured elbow, but I might be able to float with my left arm resting on my stomach. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Happiness seemed to float on the breeze, but I had one more cliff to climb. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Get to him and Engorgio his head and watch him float out of the lake — away from the task—away from the competition . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

In a happy daze I float upstairs and lie on the red sofa feeling soft as gelatina, playing the scene over and over and over again in the darkness. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The string pulled incredibly gently at the back of my neck, while the key floated just a tiny bit off my chest. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The floor and ceiling are so black I’d think we were floating if I couldn’t see the metal rails that guide Lord Kensington through the center of the space. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Lazlo looked up: at the shining citadel of alien blue metal floating in the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“But I’d like to think she could take almost anything and still float.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

These are new images floating through my head. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s like our class broke into two pieces and we floated apart, the girls one way and the boys another. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then I have it!—balloons fly; more importantly, they float. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It would be a float plane and it would land on the water and come across the lake and the pilot would be amazed that he was alive after all these days. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a floating battery olT the shore at Cambridge. They are more likely to spy us there than if we approach the city from the south.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Amazing Grace” floated out to them through the screen door. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Muthu made a grab for it, but it floated out of reach. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Harry left her floating there, looking utterly bewildered. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When Al Ulbrickson arrived on the float, he crouched down next to the boat and, with a cryptic smile, quietly said, “Well done, boys.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The dead man continued to float in front of us like a giant water-logged voodoo doll—a bad omen to be sure. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sitting low in the water like a mallard, he floated into the tunnel and vanished. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky and the mountain were at an immense distance, shimmering in the heat; and the reef was lifted by mirage, floating in a land of silver pool halfway up the sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s lovely to sit on the float looking along the length of the horse from his tail to his head rocking along the Ennis Road over the Shannon and up the Dock Road. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When his vision cleared, he saw why the boy had let go: He was floating with his head down, blood streaming from a bullet hole in the back of his neck. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was so much gob and spit floating in the water, I thought I was swimming through jellyfish,” chuckled Mamaji. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like I was floating in space! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

These “floating warehouses” were then anchored in international waters for six months or even a year, beyond the reach of the Coast Guard. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I leaned back into the sofa and floated down towards it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The particles floated in the air before her, glittering and twirling as though dancing to a song of their own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

From time to time, I think I hear the chanting echoes from the church float on the breeze all the way down to the gardens, but Ethan says that is impossible. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Jinny couldn’t imagine floating in the darkness, in the cold, with only the stars for company. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He gestures toward the winding curves of the Splash Magic River, where the riders sit in tubes and float along a moving channel. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Gramps said, ‘Well, this ain’t our marriage bed—” That night I dreamed that I was floating down a river on a raft with my mother. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Ice floats because it has a broad, flat base, which cannot push downwards through the water. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

His mother’s voice floated to him in song. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s dodging people left and right, and I can barely hear him go on about how there was room for Jack and Rose on that floating door or how they could’ve at least taken turns. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A thousand red eyes floated in the rising flames. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I grin at Ayesha, letting my mind float back to David, imagining prom with him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The ghost nodded at Ophie before floating back over to the man. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Puffs of seeds float, reseeding the grass and vacant lots. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Garbage from the city and ash from a nearby crematorium floated past on the water’s surface. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The article took me almost an hour to read, because the angrier I got, the more the words floated around on the page. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But I get in as close to the rock as I dare, with the sea slurping over the top and the seaweed floating like a woman’s hair, and I pull up the first trap. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jason could simply control the wind and float down. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a concerted effort, the body finally floats down the river, his long hair spreading around. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the screens floating behind the desk. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A red double- decker bus propelled by an air bubble floated up and down the silent street. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cloud of feathers floated down around the robot and her son. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Between two weeded rocks on the barrier Doc saw a flash of white under water and then the floating weed covered it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first saw Louise she seemed to be floating about two feet off the ground, levitating. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He let his mind float as he gazed at the swirly buckets of ice cream. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Her dress was short, and she wore her hair in Mexican braids, not floating and loose. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Cabins built on posts would just float like boats, porch and all,” he assured himself in a whisper. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little soft laugh floated down to her, and she ran, breathless, up the stairs and stopped at the top, looking to right and left along the hallway at the closed doors. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Having lured the unwary on to its back, it will dive straight to the bottom of its river or lake and devour the rider, letting the entrails float to the surface. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up above the treetops, a crescent moon was floating in a dark sky, half-obscured by mist, like an eye peering through a veil of silk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Weightlessness can be a lot of fun, but in many ways it would be a dreadful nuisance if everything in our town had to be tied down to prevent its floating off somewhere. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older trees, which had been cut down a year or two before, were well dried out, and when Brian rolled and skidded them down to the lake he found that they floated well. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

As cheerful voices and bursts of laughter from my Worlds Party floated in through my window, mixing with the rhythm of “Burn,” I collapsed onto my bedroom floor and started bawling. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Noah looked to build a boat to float on the rising waters; I was looking for a stone boat to “float” on the rolling prairie land. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I put it aside and fell asleep and dreamed that I was floating on a river. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They floated around the ocean like fluffy pillows, trailing enough venom to paralyze a swimmer. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One great hulk floated hull up between two smaller ships. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was tall, dressed in white, wearing a pith helmet with veils that floated across her face, settled around her shoulders, and trailed down her back. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small stream of white light shot from the wand, and Seven floated up, looking around in amazement as she did. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were bloodstains floating like crimson flowers across its surface. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He looked out the window, down past the float on the right. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The voice simply floated overhead like a movie narrator’s, as if a single mind controlled all the creatures. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It had not occurred to any of the rabbits that they were floating beside the path up which they had come earlier that evening before the storm broke. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was all clipped into the seat so she wouldn’t float away if she jerked. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing there in feathers up to his sneaker knots, Palmer felt a peace, a lightness that he had never known before, as if restraining straps had snapped, setting him free to float upward. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The crew looks out and sees only dead things, floating and rotting on the surface of the ocean. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As he floated closer, something caught his attention: a patch of fur. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And me and Mong and Rondell were hiding out watching the ocean to make sure nobody came floating up in a raft to try and invade our island. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fog, sometimes thin, sometimes dense, floated before them, around them, over them, like some living thing. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so tired ...” A chair lifted off the floor and floated over to him, followed by an expertly wrapped medical bandage bobbing through the air. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“It is approaching a blizzard,” Dad says, pointing to a single snowflake floating its way to the earth. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fill the water bottle I brought with me and then wedge Jennifer Niven it into the muddy bottom so it doesn’t float away. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She saw something rare there, and when she thought of him a particular image often came floating back to her. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Pococks set up shop in an old, derelict shed floating on timbers fifty yards offshore in Coal Harbour and then finally resumed what would be their life’s work—crafting fine racing shells. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Williams was well aware of this, but as he paddled along holding on to a railroad tie, he inadvertently floated across the “line.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The sea was dark, but in the moonlight he thought he saw a glistening object floating near the monster—maybe the unconscious body of Frank Zhang. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To his surprise, Jack saw a potato floating in the thin soup. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"There's enough garbage floating there already; a bit more will scarcely matter." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bottle tipped and poured a generous measure of honey-colored liquid into each of the glasses, which then floated to each person in the room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The plane almost seemed to stop in the air, floated on down toward the lake below and to the front, and Brian remembered the last time he’d “landed” on a lake in a bush plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

It floats because ice on a pond is flat, and the water resists its sinking. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All at once, Valley bobbed up and floated just above the water. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It tastes like a cloud that has floated down to earth, airy and sweet, melting on my tongue. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Happiness is a dandelion wisp floating through the air that I can’t catch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The sprite floated down to alight on the armrest of the throne, and Elowen stroked her yellow hair, making her shiver. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dawn was just breaking the sky into pale gray, illuminating the floating docks and the distant mist-shrouded structures of drowned Orleans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He moved gingerly down into the cabin, standing once more in the water, and picked up a plastic cup float ing in the garbage near the sail. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

This sloshing was to imitate space, where weightlessness would cause the fluid in our inner ears to float. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think it is. However, we must be nearing the first. Keep steady and guarded,” Wind Being said and floated ahead. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His long arms and legs moved flowingly and flawlessly, his body floating as if his feet weren’t touching the ground. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear that we had to sit there like wooden carrion until, if we were lucky, high tide would float us off. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was about eight feet long, five and a half feet wide, and floated well out of the water, and had not taken him more than two hours to build. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it was pretty fun at first, launching ourselves off the walls and going like vvvvvvvvvvvvv and hitting other people and wrestling while floating to the floor. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the float they shared, the two crews passed each other silently, with eyes averted, only taking the occasional sidelong glance, like dogs circling before a fight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The shapes of people and objects burned themselves into my retinas and stayed there, floating around behind my eyelids like hungry ghosts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There was still something of him, or by him at least, floating around out there. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He floated on his back when the valise filled and sank; the river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapours for supper. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

But...Styx’s words from earlier floated back to me. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tiny gas jets allowed compressed air to squirt out under this base, causing it to rise a fraction of an inch off the surface, so that the machine floated on a cushion of air. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty terrified women and girls howled as the boat began to float upon the sea. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands more floated and flew through the air above, dodging the constant influx of ships. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

So too did the tiny insects that crawled upon them: the beetles and wasps, the bees that floated from blossom to blossom. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Dad would rub imaginary spray out of his eyes, and scan the horizon for possible sperm whale, Flying Dutchmen, or floating ambergris. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Dreams,’ he said, ‘is very mysterious things. They is floating around in the air like little wispy-misty bubbles. And all the time they is searching for sleeping people.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The half barrel floated into the parking lot. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But then one of the kids in the group saw the weird angles in the flowering chasm that floated holographically around us. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I made fists, one pair of gloves floated shoulder-high on either side of me, and the second pair hovered near my waist. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"You are to act as if you're an artist floating through this world. Your sole purpose is to beautify, and transform the Gris. You are a Belle." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I signed my letter, rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in a stream that flows into the Swat River. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“In the six hundreds. Right underneath the floating stethoscope.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Finally, in the distance we can see Boston, where slender homes float above the glass towers. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I noticed the beer can that Shelly had used to clobber the speedboat driver floating about twenty yards off the beach. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She was in the air, and the dreamlike unreality of floating warred with the gruesome truth beneath her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Once complete, this grillage of steel would be filled and covered with Portland cement to produce a broad, rigid raft that Root called a floating foundation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The pilot cut the engine, opened the door, and got out, balanced, and stepped forward on the float to hop onto the sand without getting his feet wet. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hotel itself is at least twenty stories tall, sleekly designed, with a virtual image of floating koi swimming across its entire side. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Through black smoke and swirling green fire, Davos glimpsed a swarm of small, boats bearing downriver: a confusion of ferries and wherries, barges, skiffs, rowboats, and hulks that looked too rotten to float. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the bed seemed to be floating on a dark sea with little sunlit islands that resolved into the crooked lamps when he focused on them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The long dining tables had vanished and a golden stage had appeared along one wall, lit by thousands of candles floating overhead. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And always floating around was James’s question about whether the game had actually been finished before Mr. Griswold was attacked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Simon was floating in the water and kicking with his feet, and Maurice was practicing diving. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“You look nice,” I said when she appeared, dreamy and floating like she always seemed, framed within the front door. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

You practically float down the hall to the entryway. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I sat up, and a gossamer sheet floated away. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The wax hardened immediately, floating on the surface. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I find myself floating off again to another possible future, where Kareem is getting married but I am not the bride. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Except for Boobie, the students had their notebooks open, while the rip of an envelope and the shuffling of paper floated from his desk. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As disgusting as it was to be wading through the Coral Queen’s toilet crud, I couldn’t leave that beer can out there to float away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Derek nodded and stepped past him, balanced along the float and reached into the plane. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of my parents floats into my head the moment I close my eyes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me feel safe, this time be- tween day and night, as though we’re floating together in an in-between place where anything is possible. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could just see pages of the Bible floating in the air. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As if it’s not all in my head and heart already; everything Papa ever said echoing like a chorus of little sentences that float through me in his deep, disappeared voice. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny flakes floated into the deep intersecting lines of footprints, and for a moment I felt myself slow, watching the way the snow was neither flying nor falling. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I said, and pointed to a floating pavilion filled with laughing people and lanterns. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Cloud doesn't say a thing, just floats by, ghostlike. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It looked like little bits of powdery sand floating in the air. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Did you see how the paper floated when it was burned? This is how that balloon flies.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The upper part of his body was floating but I knew his feet were dragging on the bottom. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Artie Shaw’s big hit “Begin the Beguine” floats on the humid air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The words floated up out of the whirlwind that was Pixie. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The earth floats in space; one quarter of the sphere is habitable, but half of it is covered by water, and the remaining quarter represents terra or aqua incognita. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was floating away from the rocky hill and down until she lay upon a grassy meadow soft as a bed and fragrant with flowers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not talking about me. And you know what else? You’re not special. You’re just like everyone else. You don’t float or walk through walls and you never will!” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Before the echo of her sharp cry had died away, Old Dan’s deep voice floated out of the swamp. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something floated in the air gently behind him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked, Toby was either floating or sinking. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He sank into the waves and swam under the floating dock. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

My reverie was punctured by a raucous cackling and complaining from a tiny house floating past us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was on my back when I came to and there was a white face floating just above me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ron floated, unconscious, a few inches above the lake bottom, drifting a little in the ebb of the water. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I obey, and when I look to my right, there is a floating blue sphere. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He floats on his back, arms folded behind his head. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He tried to speak with them, but they just floated around, occasionally bonking against the glass. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I want to dissolve into a zillion particles and float far, far away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It floated into daylight, turned sideways and passed out of the restricted view. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pilot stayed in his seat and Brian moved the passenger seat forward and clambered out of the plane, stepped on the float and then to the dry grass. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

At last, Jinny felt her breath weakening, so she turned to float, belly up, to rest on the ripples. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

So she turned and floated some more, hoping for a thought, an instinct, or best of all, a glimpse of the island through the mist. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It lacked the lyrical eloquence and the floating optimism of the Jeffersonian version because it was grounded in the palpable sense of contingency Adams had internalized over his long career. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It is perfectly correct to claim that in a boundless fluid a floating body displaces its own weight in water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A few big billows of clouds floated ahead of us. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Stargirl seemed to float down the promenade in her buttercup gown. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

My name is like this floating blue string. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Echoes and birds flew, white and pink dust floated, the forest further down shook as with the passage of an enraged monster: and then the island was still. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It's morning now and we have floated safely through the Nicholtown night, our evening prayers Jehovah, please give us another day, now answered. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

One whalelike snort floated out into the hall through the peeling bathroom door. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m floating back to the elevator bank, my limbs and bookbag and good-luck rabbit foot drifting around me as if suspended in the syrupy ooze of celebration. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He did not want her to float away into history, into the times, an upswelling of the masses. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Found it floating in sea, but only paper inside. Sorry.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The words floated into Kaede’s mind as if from a great distance. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The days sort of ran together, with me floating through a blurry obstacle course of worried faces, a multitude of moving mouths, everything safely on the other side of my Trazon bubble. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then they let go of their branches and floated down to the ground, and the forest gradually filled with the sounds of creatures scurrying through dead leaves. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When we finish, I do the dishes, watching rainbow bubbles float up from the sink. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

My fingertips float up to the edges of her ears and the buzzed sides of her frohawk, and she hums. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The winding road back to the house led under stone bridges, through woods and villages, and past marsh ponds where swans floated on mirrorlike water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only a veil of smoke, floating embers and ashes, pressing down. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Red and blue clouds floated across his eyelids. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why I'm tying it up. I should just let it float out there and sink,” Gabe’s voice was shaking with tears very near the surface. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Silence floated between us a moment, and then he said, “Will you have to go back?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few feet from where we are standing, a body floats past, dressed in a black pajama shirt and pants. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heat-lanterns float overhead, casting a copper glow and warming the inside of the tent. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He rinsed them in the floodwater and noticed that the canoe wasn’t floating anymore, but resting on the grass beneath. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It floated for a second or two before being swallowed by an underwater mouth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the jar, almost impossible to see, floated a transparent jellyfish about the size of a fingernail. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The drumbeat grew louder, and the sound of flapping wings floated past my ear on a faint breeze. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I’m no longer floating in an ocean, but standing in a cavern encircling me, trapping me in. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hazel had never thought of it as actual smoke, but as she watched it curling around Arion’s legs, floating through the broken arches of the ruined courtyard, the hairs stood up on her arms. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My question floated into my parents’ sudden silence and hung like a bubble in the air. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the field, tall elephant grass glistens with morning dew while gray smoke floats into the sky from distant villages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance spiky, chocolate-brown mountains floated on eerie pools of mirage. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thrashed so much we almost collided with a floating mine. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat by the pond with Abby, that memory floated up and hovered over me like a swarm of gnats. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Down below, the hull of the Argo II gleamed as it floated over the forum, like some massive bronze party balloon. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m just about to stick it on the refrigerator door when voices float in from down the hall. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Tearing through wreckage near the collapsed “El,” he suddenly spotted a mass of yellow hair floating in a pool of molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The ice on the river broke into great floating blocks, and gradually thinned and disappeared. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as he lay on the couch in his trailer, sun in his eyes, he was dead tired but still floating on air. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I still couldn’t see much of the island—just mist and rocks—but floating in the water were pieces of wood and fiberglass, the wreckage of old ships, even some flotation cushions from airplanes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Violet was sitting in a floating chair with lots of cables. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice came floating like an echo from a distant mountain so that I thought I was having a nightmare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I floated there on my back, my eyes closed, listening to the rattling cries of a bird, a kingfisher that skimmed the water’s edge and crossed from shore to shore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Long hair floated out from under her straw hat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind floated lazily between reality and sleep, taking in the intermingling smells of smoke, ponya seed paste, and the surrounding trees as they creaked and rustled in the darkness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then in the quiet water I turned and floated. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abjuring his past, he floated from his home village in a canoe made from white stone and wandered the Adirondack and Allegheny forests, then a place of constant violence and, apparently, intermittent cannibalism. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Below the glass counter at his waist were trays of more plump samosas, and what looked like pale, diamond-shaped pieces of fudge covered with foil, and some bright orange pastries floating in syrup. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had to do everything this morning, drive the float, wheel the handcart with the bags, sit in the pub, drink lemonade, listen to the men discussing who is the best, Rommel or Montgomery. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His chin gradually came to rest on his collarbone; his beard floated around his ears like a fog bank; and he began snoring peacefully. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The bayou birds' morning melody, floating through the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Sunday night, as I tromped down the back hallway—I’d just finished putting up all my pictures again—to the living room, I heard my parents’ voices floating out of the kitchen. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The theories, all of them, the photos, the words on the T-shirt, the pods on the Wheel were like floating strands in my brain. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jule didn’t like the lemon slices floating in it, but she drank some anyway. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Aunty Onenu’s weave was longer and more incongruous than the last, high and coiffed in front, with waves of hair floating to her back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A sudden yellow glow floated in the fog. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

On and on she wandered in desperation until she reached a bit of land which was floating on the sea. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Distorted images of Clay Derby’s face floated into her mind. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, as they floated placidly in an arc, they looked almost like cows grazing in a field. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A little trickle of cold air floats in from a gap between the window and the sill. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Emotionally, I was withdrawn from the objective world; my desires floated loosely within the walls of my consciousness, contained and controlled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the daylight hours, they dove into the surf with abandon, emerging tanned and sure-footed, as if they were selkies who had let their timidity float out on the tide like a false skin. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I float off the balcony, but then I turn back, full of nosy courage. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

His very teeth were floating and his voice was a plaintive cry as he begged our father to rise from his throne and enter into family life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s how it would be at night on Parker Head, where folks knew that, come winter, their houses would still be on Parker Head, not floating down the New Meadows. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I shined my flashlight into the hole and saw a half-chewed cheeseburger floating in brown carbonated muck. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The drawers had burst open and there were tools and plastic silverware, plates and cups floating in the water. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth had to float to me through the kitchen door. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the fetus that was me, floating in a dark watery world, and wondered if I should remember that, too. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At night he saw the stars in the heavens and the sickle-shaped moon floating like a boat in the blue. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning I took the fishing rod Miguelito had given me, placed it gently in the creek, and watched it float away. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke collected under the bed lamp, then floated out to be free in the room. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtains, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I open the dishwasher and lean into the cloud of steam that floats out of it. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

My attention floated away from the woods and the hunt. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I just remember seeing a pair of great, big, yellow eyes. My whole body sort of seized up, and then I was floating away. She looked dreamily at Harry. “And then I came back again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Had the lifeboat drifted back into that floating trash? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A dark mass to my left attracts my attention; something dull in texture is floating on the surface of the darkening stream. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned his gaze to the Deadheads, a glowing disk still floating in his vision. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As a crystal reaches a cell wall, it disintegrates into hundreds of individual virus particles, and the broodlings push through the cell wall like hair and float away in the bloodstream of the host. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice and I watched like two paralyzed people as the milk rose around the mouse’s furry gray body until his whiskers began to float. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Cole dressed and carried the ancestor rock, the sun had peeked above the trees.Then he heard an unexpected noise: the unmistakable buzz of Edwin’s outboard engine floated over the trees. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I catch in- timidating snippets of the conversations floating around the auditorium. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted high into the air and hung there, floating. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes, the water is thick and dirty, and a group of mermaids tangled in garbage and seaweed swim toward me, their long hair floating all around their faces. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Whatever her plan had been, it floated just out of reach somewhere between pain and shock. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

So I start to ask Janae, thinking that she might have the answers, but her eyes are fixed on the setting sun, and I'm sure her dreams are floating with the clouds. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I could see that clear January morning, the moment of release when the balloon floated above the rooftops. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loves these pj’s best, because the monkeys float in blue flannel space. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Along the walls are large stalls with all sorts of crazy vehicles parked inside them, everything from floating bicycles to flying saucers. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I saw you go into that fire on the floating island. I seen you give up rations so the crew could have more. Some folks, knowin’ when they’re gonna kick it, might play it safe. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, I swear, sometimes I want to put that thing in a box and let her float down Kabul River. Like baby Moses.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I will remember forever some of what happened when a balloon that had caught under a bush jiggled loose and floated up into her nose out of nowhere. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Good-bye, Wilbur,” she said as her last words floated into the audience and out of reach. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Together they weaved among the bodies of the dogs that floated around his legs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he was, sometimes he looked like a bunch of clothing floating through the forest. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The water was choked with more rocks and ship wreckage and floating mines. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The word fridge floated around in my head. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That January it got so cold you could see chunks of ice the size of cars floating down the Hudson River. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hall outside the Belle apartments stretches like a great river I never want to stop floating on. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He’d have thought that knee-jerk skepticism would have been knuckled under by the sight of the enormous floating seraph in the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I nudge my sister and we duck behind a sari floating on the line. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone floats, some upside down, like they’re all in zero gravity or something. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I say, because the dummy seems to be floating in space. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The coyote ignores him, then moving so effortlessly she seems to float, she stops directly under me and drops the bird she is carrying. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had floated far enough away from the Nightbeast and the Cursed Toads that they had a moment to hide and regroup. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

My body feels like it's floating in a dream, until a mosquito decides to bite me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When the girls finished their lesson, the petals of the lotus closed over Urvashi and she floated back to the heavens. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They floated there for a while, softly honking to one another. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was floating in utter darkness, unable to see even where the water ended. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted to see if I could float again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Al Ulbrickson arrived on the float breathless, crouched down by the boat, and found himself characteristically unable to find words. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The rabbit’s fur pressed through the wire, and white wisps of it floated away in the sunlight like tiny clouds. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

One by one, the ghosts floated away through the opposite wall. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Most of it missed and floated off in small spherical blobs. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he lifted up the hinged section of the countertop and floated closer to the curious man. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He turned back, took a right turn, and saw an odd golden mist floating ahead of him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Al Ulbrickson stood on the floating dock, listening to the lake water lap at the shore, watching them go. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was too frail to swim on his own, but with Jordie’s help, he could float. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As they passed her they turned and their eyes watched her slowly floating away from them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am,” I said, shaking the peanuts into my bottle, where they caused a little reaction of foam, then floated on the brown liquid. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner wondered what it would be like to float down the New Meadows with his house on a raft, floating to where he did not know. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dimple laughed, feeling like she might float off the bed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I could feel it through the water, in my chest, and I threw my arms out and floated to a stop. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I pick it up, but before I say a word, Mom grabs the floating receiver out of the air. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you read with all those colors floating around?” asks Michelle, the girl with the dirty book. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The floating dock and its anchor moved and swayed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The day after I got home from our marathon visit, a man Deborah didn’t know called her asking if she’d ride on a HeLa float in a black rodeo. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was root beer for future floats, and chocolate chips for future chocolate chip cookies. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And then I float through the day in a jittery, happy daze. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She floated around in the privilege of her popularity without giving it a thought. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The moon, floating above us, scraped against the clouds. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the skiff floated empty, Edwin stepped into the water, and all three dragged the aluminum boat out of the surf, over the rocks, and well above high-tide mark. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of shining eyes watched as bright flames crept down the sides of the tower and embers floated away on the breeze. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nearby, in a different tank, I looked at jellies whose tentacles swirled the way wisps of a girl’s hair might if she floated underwater. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Leaves floated on the creek like tiny boats. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I float alongside the fantasy, giving it breath and flesh and bone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Whatever floats your boat. Ha! I made a pun. Get it? Boat? Pirates?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Don’t know when my toes have ever been so cold, standing in icy mud, mid-November, in wooden clogs—thought so much of Jamie floating in the North Sea. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

For years the word floated in the air around their heads, yellow pollen, wispy secret dust of the ages passed on and on. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I still felt like I was floating, the Star Wars hero music in my head. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They, his foster parents Frank and Cora Mercer, had found him floating on an inflated rubber air-rescue raft, off the coast of New England...or had it been Mexico, near the port of Tampico? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He called out to me, “Koly, look here. I can make myself float. Try it for yourself.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was about to protest when Muthu’s voice floated through the thin barrier between us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Longships filled the sea, sails furled and oars shipped, floating at anchor or run up on the pale sand shore. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Outside of my parents’ house were white balloons, tied off on either side of the white fence’s gate, floating arrows that pointed us up to the open front door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It floated a few inches off the ground, its feathery boots moving fast, just out of reach of the sunflower seeds. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

That night Liyana dreamed a cake fell off its plate into the sea and floated away from her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The saris of the wading women floated on the surface of the water like the petals of pond lilies. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

A girl, pixie haired and smiling, was floating above the ocean, rays arrowing out from behind her, where a brilliant red-orange sun was rising. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The room was dark except for the faint glow of the lamp in the living room floating through the half-open door of my room. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She tossed the joint into the pool, where it quickly burned out and then floated on the blue water. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A corpse floating in the black water of a basement among the trash and rusting ductwork. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Her hair floated upward as though she were underwater. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His broad view of what constituted landscape architecture included anything that grew, flew, floated, or otherwise entered the scenery he created. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The floating blade moves where I tell it to. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s manner of walking unnerved Cora—she seemed to float, aloft on her fury. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“What you need,” he said, “is an ice-cream float.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Roy shut his eyes and felt like he was floating on the sunny slope of a cloud. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was exactly as they’d left her, in her foyer, floating near the ceiling. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The words float by, flecks of ash, seeds on the breeze, remnants of another life that hasn’t quite vanished. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked, and the men pushed back their makeshift table and came right down to the curb to wait for us, like they were spectators at a parade and we were the prize float. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arrange my face in the middle of the book, my hair spread like seaweed floating in the current of the story that sweeps me under and away to sleep. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

But even if she could tread and float forever, night would come. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But we were working right up to the last minute on our float. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two ravens skimmed deliberately along the distant treetops, floating into the open over the ninth lake and drifting down through the subsequent meadow- land, heading into Deerhair Canyon, where the Milagro posse had retreated. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, we’re just going to float around out here for the next few days and wait to die?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the branches I can see the seal of the Capitol, which appears to be floating in the sky. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He bent over, picked up the float, and secured it under his right arm. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

When one wave finally pulled him in, he felt his body floating on top of the water. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now, sitting in this cave of lightly perfumed silk, what had seemed constant and unquestionable feels as delicate as the steam floating over her tea. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The life-buoy and the sweeps floated away from me on the water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He dangled there for a minute, grasping the edge, staring down into the water, until he spotted a big board floating underneath. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

She held up a picture of Pandora opening up the box and a whole shebang of gremlins floating out. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

There’s a heart, animated with lines, floating in the last frame, when Khadija, the Prophets first boss and first love, fifteen years older, sends a marriage proposal to him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A floating blue island in a pink house where I spilled out my guts and then hoped I wasn’t tossed out to sea to wait for my punishment. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trub’s laughter floats in the air behind me, and all three people in the tent turn in my direction as a red cloud of dust rises at my heels. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I try to unsynch with the law of gravity and float up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The moon seemed to float in a curtain of fog over the field. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel vulnerable floating up here like this. Couldn’t we set down in the river?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I reached for them, but they would float away. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My hands kept floating up in front of me, and I wished I had pockets or somewhere to put them to keep them out of the way of all the switches on the instrument panel. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water had a few cherry blossoms floating in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Merely floating the possibility of the role to Lola might provoke a crisis, and could Briony really hold hands with her before the altar, while Jackson intoned from the Book of Common Prayer? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Quickly,” she said as Seven’s bubble floated inside. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And several yards behind, marching beside the young men floating the coffin upward, I looked into the face of the old man who had aroused the song and felt a twinge of envy. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached for Mary Alice to keep her from tangling in her skirts and pitching off the float. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s lined with framed paintings, and there’s jazz music faintly floating through the air. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Secrets float between us, begging to be revealed. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s like playing pool. See. The boat is stuck; if we can knock it free, it’ll float right past us.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Normally, she could have floated the supplies in the boat, but the crack made this impossible. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena stared only at Chaol with those starlit eyes, and her long, white fingers floated through the air to meet his. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I picture him standing on that floating runway, his lovely blond hair hidden under a drab helmet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His father would float in a sea of white ice, his grandfather atop the white palms. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not your fault, the monster said, its voice floating in the air around him like a breeze. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

A few strands float up to the real candles burning at the head of the box. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She cleared her throat a couple of times, thinking maybe the sound magic would float by him and he’d see it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And then the instructor’s face was gone, his hand was gone, and his voice was saying, “You’re floating.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But after four long years, and more than 600,000 dead from both sides, the people of the North can be forgiven the joy and excitement that now floats through the air. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I see a floating door. We can use it as our lifeboat. See you back at the ranch, Fred. You too, Tater and Scruffy.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Uncle Al floats toward us in black and white checked pants and a crimson vest. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

This meant that I had to float free of the spacecraft, letting go of the handrail as I used both hands to recock the collar. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In school I was a yellow balloon, smiling and lazy, floating above the classrooms. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Her hair floated in a halo around her head, like she was underwater. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Coconut trees bent into the river and watched him float by. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fast numbers were a riot of energy, and the ballads put the entire place into some kind of powerful, floating dream state. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they would float free, unless they chose to remain strapped down. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding the grid with his tweezers, he dipped it into the water and brought it up slowly underneath a floating slice, like a fisherman lifting up a dip net. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They jumped in en masse, swimming like birds flying through a sky gilded with fragrant bubbles, while José Arcadio floated on his back on the edge of the festivities, remembering Amaranta with his eyes open. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The wave rolled over us, and we pushed up through it and floated out of the back of the wave. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But they manage to find some pieces of wood floating nearby. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When they got to the shell house, they found hundreds of exuberant fans jockeying for space on the wobbly float and milling around in front of the building, hooting and hollering. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I scrambled back onto the float, still seared by what he had said. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lived on the middle floor, stuck between cooking smells that floated up and feet sounds that drifted down. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out tumbled her belongings—pans and candles and the biscuits Cooky had given them—and then the book rose from its depths, shedding its leather wrapping as it floated toward Tanin’s outstretched arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Next she fell into melancholy, grumbling about the lazy British commanders floating at anchor off Staten Island, observing New York through long spyglasses but making no move to invade. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling floats with me out into the parking lot when Mom’s car pulls up. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They kept floating out there, suspended, as if the horizon had finally become what it always seemed to be from shore: the sea’s limit, beyond which no man could sail. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I want you to float on your back. It’s the same idea as the dead man’s float, but you don’t have to hold your breath, and you can keep your eyes open. See?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

"You have forests of tall pine and old oak. Lord Manderly has shipwrights and sailors in plenty. Together you ought to be able to float enough longships to guard both your coasts." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her thoughts don't float out of jail as often as mine. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Though we stood in Denmark’s woods, there floated as on abreeze the imagined scents of the distant Bible lands: myrrh and aloe and henna and cinnamon. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Eventually, Luma floated the idea of starting a small soccer program for the refugees to the mother of one of her players, who was on the board at the YMCA. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The two boys moved so quickly, it seemed that their discarded clothes were still floating to the ground as their bodies hit the water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of giggling girls floats to us from the kitchen. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The amount of soot and floating ash from the impact and following fires would blot out the sun, certainly for months, possibly for years, disrupting growing cycles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The spores of various yeasts are floating in the air just about everywhere. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I float through the rest of the day, and he’s all I can think about. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Once in a while I saw something float by. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The water looks yellowish and often I swim away from the dead animals, garbage, and feces that float by. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any bad odor was noticeable here, where the sidewalks were swept hourly and lotus blossoms floated in the clear water below. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Her own heart was beating in union to the one that floated before her, blue and corrupt . . . three mounts must you ride . . . one to bed and one to dread and one to love . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He floated out of the lab and made his way toward the nose of the ship. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each idea floated in front of me as I considered it. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

From behind her chair his voice floated down upon her in soft waves. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jamie spent a night floating in the North Sea and afterward had to have four frozen fingers and all his toes amputated. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

All the images of Uncle Jet floated to the surface. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

While I am doing these chores, my mind floats. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps there are living things that do not have a solvent system at all—solid-state life, where there are electrical signals propagating rather than molecules floating about. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head feels like it might float off, like one of the beauty-lanterns. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The sky brightens when the seal of the Capitol appears as if floating in space. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Into Lina’s mind floated the beginning of the worst question: What if the lights never . The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The water at the bottom of the horses’ buckets is murky and has oats floating in it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Plates, cups, spoons, pot lids, the heavy aluminum rice pot, the frying pan, all half submerged in gray water with a greasy scum floating on the top. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand floated up toward my shoulder—to steady me, or herself, I wasn’t sure—but I stepped away. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And they were floating a tiny bit above the ground. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Werfel could tell it was a spell because the elf was floating several inches above the bed, surrounded by crackling sparks. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The room beyond was dimly lit, but he could see Nagini, swirling and coiling like a serpent underwater, safe in her enchanted, starry sphere, which floated unsupported in midair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Far into the dark quiet hours they floated on, guiding their boats under the overhanging shadows of the western woods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Leave her to float and die on the ocean. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I trail slightly behind my parents and Connor, who is still obsessed with jellyfish, and is now going on and on about how he hopes we see some floating in the water. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Galileo seems to have had absolutely no success in his efforts to convince the philosophers that he understood why bodies float better than they did. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As Piper watched, eight of the nymphs dissolved into vapor and floated upward. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, I'd just imagine myself living in a moated sugar-cube castle, floating from room to room on a king-size magic carpet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I just step around her and carefully float my green robe down the hall to my room, and I shut my door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

White sheets with bright red spots float as our sail. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The rich aroma of simmering tomato sauce floated up the stairs. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The sun was bright that day with only breeze enough to ruffle the horses’ manes, flaunt scarlet riding capes, float the flag of England. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the balloons floated eerily above a bright vase full of irises. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sam wasn’t looking at me; she didn’t seem to be looking at anything beyond the dust floating lazy and free through the air to my right. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And on the wall above the keyboard was a picture of a man and woman floating over a city. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Provoked, Galileo embarked on a series of experiments to study floating bodies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The odor of hot, strong coffee floated from the kitchen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The song was both a remembrance and a prayer as the men’s voices floated out over the audience. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Outside of the Korean Peninsula, there’s no place easier than greater Los Angeles for a Korean to float around Without learning another language. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She held out two bubbly pink drinks, each with a cherry, red as candy, floating in the ice. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The Pax floated on an iron-black river through the middle of a city. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A milky, transparent blob floating near the surface of the water. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And that swimming hole...it would be so nice to jump in with Jason and relax in the shade of the trees, floating in the nice cool water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then she peels them off one by one and lets them float to the doormat. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I pushed the papers away and they floated to the floor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then the boat turned towards me, and stayed its pace, and floated slowly by within my hand’s reach, yet I durst not handle it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She had drifted up about twenty-five feet and was leaning against the railings of her floating platform, completely lost in a new book. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Five lilac post-balloons float to my left, waiting for messages, and to be set free off the balcony. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

At Fifth a cab passed and I tried to hail it, only to hear someone's voice arise, the sound floating gaily by. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lots of them were just parts, elbows floating next to a pair of crossed legs and, next to that, three pairs of feet. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nita looked out at the ships against their floating docks in the distance. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their voices sounded faint and ghostly, as if dozens of ghosts floated over the rubble, crying in little, distant voices for help. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then something ghostly floated in air to his left. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there parts of it almost float away from the central tower, drifting off into space. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It would be difficult to spot a small rowboat floating in the river. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lee floated around the room checking in on the teams as we started on our app project, her shirt boasting the words “Back in My Day, We Had Nine Planets.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He organized a floating hospital ship and had it moored in the Congo River. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish was silvery and still and floated with the waves. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about some kids floating around in the ocean far away from land, and there are sharks—so many sharks. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The alleys lay empty and gray wisps of fog floated eerily over the canal. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dentist promised it would make her sleepy and relaxed, but Hazel felt like she was floating away from her own body, panicky and out of control. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mateo and I float back to the top with our hands still locked, lifeguards flanking us. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Their voices floated in through the high windows, and seeped under the heavy redwood doors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was a reaction—I wasn’t concentrating and trying to float then like I was now. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He would turn to steam and float up among the treetops. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spears and bullets sparked harmlessly off the pearl bubbles as we floated up. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was a loose kite in a gentle wind floating with only my will for an anchor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once she floated a birch-bark note downstream to me while I was fishing. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music floats out of some, giggles burst from others, and the scent of sweet pastries mingles with the nectar of flowers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I glance over at Suma, who floats peacefully in her pod, having her memories of her home and mom stolen that very moment. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“There they were. A box of ’em just floating there in the water.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The basket floated to Father Cham and stopped at his feet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Much of California will float off and become a kind of Madagascar of the Pacific. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

With these words she turned gracefully and seemed to float out of the room, closing the door quietly behind her. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He made them dance and rise and float. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A little girl’s pink balloon floated by my face, and I pushed it away rudely. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Dad watches as I float forkloads of rubbery eggs up to my mouth. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goose bumps sprouted all over her body as the conversation they’d had last weekend after Rios floated into memory. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As I stepped out the door, I thought I heard Momma’s warbled voice float up out of Holly’s old radio. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He looks at me, steps away, stops, comes back, kisses me on the forehead for the first time in my life and I’m so happy I feel like floating out of the bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

If any worries did manage to push their way through to the surface of my consciousness, I could float them back where they came from until tomorrow, and then until the next day. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liquid putrefaction like drowned things floating like pale rubber flabbily filled getting the odor of honeysuckle all mixed up. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elis experiment belonged to a different world entirely—a world light-years ahead of the floating disks and squat cylinders previous ancient authorities had imagined our planet to be. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He turns up the volume so I can hear the music floating across the morning air. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a beat between us as the words “see my room” floated there. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Soft flakes of iridescent snow float to the ground, falling from her like leaves from a tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I lit a cigarette and I heard a song floating out over the sunlit air. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I float back to my tower to wonder about the boy. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She felt a great peacefulness floating in the air. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At Christmas time, Jerusalem and Bethlehem felt crisp and cool, flickering with candles in windows, buttery yellow streetlights, and music floating from shops—thin threads of light and sound. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When everything was ready we stood by the door and people began to tumble in with wide smiles, wearing their best clothes, arms full of flowers and sweets, rose perfume floating in the air. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But the dream still floated, still beckoned, as beautiful and elusive as the green light at the end of Gatsby’s dock. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So if you could shut them off, the citadel would just...float away?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For example, on earth, mixing two or more molten metals is difficult because the light ones float to the top while the heavy ones sink to the bottom. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “You saw him four times! Ain’t you afeared of getting floated off?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It’s not like in the movies, where you just float up into the air. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The finger then floats to Hassan's face and makes a dry, scratchy sound as it slowly traces the curve of his cheeks, the outline of his ears. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nana’s voice floated out of the sky, riding the breeze in the way only an elder’s voice could. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It meant that Burnham could use Root’s floating grillage for foundations without having to worry about catastrophic settlement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The oil didn’t give him any float at all. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He showed up just a minute later, carefully floating down the hall with the bomb held in both hands. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It can be little things, like throwing darts at a pool float to test my sister’s swimming skills, or spitting back at the llamas at the zoo. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

With Miss Sadie’s stories floating around in my head, I came up with any number of folks who might be buried there. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He thought of the house floating down the New Meadows with all the Tripps inside, and Mr. Tripp holding the house together and steady against the waves. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Clouds of steam float high in the distance. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Closer to the car, houses floated in the middle of soggy lawns, trees had been stripped, there were branches down everywhere. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Another floated at chest level, high enough that he would only need to tilt his chin down to see his reflection. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As we’d floated east, past the reef line, the color had changed from turquoise to indigo. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I held my breath and floated at last, looking up into the sky, afraid to speak. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Their eyes floated from one body to the next like flies, landing, sticking briefly, and drifting on. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She arches her spine until she floats on her back, straining to hear the notes of the Alhambra at midnight. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She floated on the ripe blue cloud an artist had painted crowning a yellow city. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Four fresh bodies are floating in the Straits of Florida. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes felt the clot dislodge and liquefy beneath her breasts, float through her belly, and slide down her thighs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When at last the water calmed, a bright red stain floated to the surface—growing larger until the entire river was red. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I felt heavy lying in bed instead of floating free as I had been doing for the past week. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A half-moon floated above the Bell Tower and cast its reflection on the roof of the glass gardens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Taft and Will want me to take them tubing—drive the small motorboat while they float behind it in an inner tube. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z