5 sentences with 'floating'
Example sentences and phrases with the word floating and other words derived from it.
• « Thales of Miletus had a student, Anaximander, who postulated that instead of floating on water as his teacher had suggested, the Earth was held suspended in space by a perfectly symmetrical balance of forces. »
• « There, where the view almost blends into the black abyss of space, is Io, another of Jupiter's satellites. It is that red spot floating in the darkness, as if someone had wanted to leave a testimony of its passage through the Universe, dropping a single drop of its blood; a strange rose shining in a black garden where the silence of winter reigns. »
• « place the submerged plants in the aquarium, burying their roots in the sand, then the floating plants. »
• « Some floating plants, whose spongy tissues are endowed with air bubbles, do not have roots because they absorb water directly through their bodies. »
• « The atmosphere prevents pieces of solid minerals floating in space from crashing into the Earth. When some of them manage to pass through the atmosphere and fall to Earth, they are called aerolites (from aero: air and lithos: stone) or meteorites: (raised in the air). »