Afloat in a sentence

At 17, she works mornings before school to help her parents and brother keep their fishing business afloat.

At a cabinet meeting at Liverpool Town Hall last night, the council rubber stamped its plan to transfer the ownership of its Lifestyles venues in Everton Park and Park Road in order to try and keep them afloat.

Before he had the opportunity for the comebacks, revivals and collaborations that have kept many fashion designers afloat in recent years, Gibb died of cancer in 1988, aged 44.

Bingo halls are clearly having to adapt to stay afloat.

But to stay afloat, McCarthy would have needed the Democrats to save him.

Cafe Afloat is a cafe based in a narrowboat on the Diglis Marina.

Can the brand even stay afloat as a subsidiary of the Bay?

CoinShares remains afloat despite heavy FTX losses: Q4 reportcointelegraph.

Coleman kept the Cavaliers offense afloat early, giving Callaway a narrow 14-13 lead after the first quarter.

Despite the media’s attempt to keep Biden’s “Uncle Joe from Scranton” persona afloat, Biden is and always has been a vicious demagogue and a deeply dishonest pol who mouths whatever he thinks will do him the most good at any moment.

Finally, Silco's death will mean a falling apart of Zaun, and a struggle to keep the underground afloat as Piltover attacks.

For a while now, the news industry has been struggling to keep afloat.

Gene Veeder, a cattle rancher and musician from North Dakota who attended the festival with his daughter Jessie, said music has helped him keep his family afloat at different times, especially when Jessie was an infant.

Half of respondents to the survey said they have been forced to borrow money from friends or family to keep afloat, 30 per cent have been in their overdraft for consecutive months and 28 per cent are unable to pay off their credit cards each month.

He called on the Government to revisit its windfall taxes and ‘close the loopholes so that those profiting from the energy bills crisis fund the additional support needed to keep people warm and businesses afloat’.

He jumped into the waters of Lahaina Bay and kept himself afloat and alive for about nine hours.

He then mulled on the concept of essential workers, a term that became commonplace at the start of the pandemic to describe people who worked in positions crucial to helping society stay afloat, such as grocery workers, farmworkers and fast food workers.

However, Mariota has done nothing to show he would be capable of keeping the Eagles afloat in the event that Hurts went down.

I just thought, perhaps foolishly, that the nature of just trying to keep it going another season and trying to keep all those characters afloat was becoming taxing on where those characters would want to go.

In a goodbye statement published on their site team noted the difficulties of keeping an “independent media company that is reliant on partnerships afloat over the last three years”.