Collocations for "floating"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "floating" in context.
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float
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- floating on the [water, surface, lake]
- floating in the [water, lake]
- float on top of the [water]
- float back (up) to the [top, surface]
- see if it will sink or float
- idiom: [it, that] doesn't float my boat
- idiom: whatever floats your boat
- was floating [down the river, downriver]
- [the boat, he] floated out to sea
- float along on the [current, river]
- [balloons, smoke, leaves, paper] floated up into the air
- floated away [on, in] the breeze
- floating (along) on the breeze
- clouds floated across the sky
- floated by [my window, me, the shore]
- floated past [my window]
- float in midair
- float like a [butterfly, duck]
- floating freely
- float [an idea, a plan]
- float a [business, company] on the stock [exchange, market]
- a [swimming, life, heavy, bobbing] float
- the [wharf, dock, landing] float
- floats used for [angling, fishing]
- has to swim with a float
- tossed the [child, man, woman] a float
- UK: [an employee, a worker, a cash] float of [$10]
- UK: there's no [cash, money] (left) in the float
- UK: pay from the [cash, office] float
- UK: [sailed, drifted] [along, across] on a float
- UK: [climbed, scrambled] onto the float
- UK: made a float out of [logs, wood, planks]
- [a root beer, an orange] float
- a [parade, procession, pageant, festival] float
- [designed, built, drove, waved from] the [parade] float
- use a float to [smooth, layer, apply] plaster
- fit an [aircraft, airplane] with floats
- UK: used to drive a milk float
'floating' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):