How do you use Floaty in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like buoyant or light, plus the exact meaning.
Floaty in a sentence
Floaty meaning
- Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant.
- Of a ship: having a shallow draft (the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull), and thus drawing less (that is, floating higher in) water.
Using Floaty
- The main meaning on this page is: Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant. | Tending to float on a liquid or to rise in air or a gas; buoyant. | Of a ship: having a shallow draft (the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull), and thus drawing less (that is, floating higher in) water.
- Useful related words include: buoyant, light.
- In the example corpus, floaty often appears in combinations such as: the floaty.
Context around Floaty
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Floaty
- In this selection, "floaty" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gauzy, ring, long, nature, bright and billowing stand out and add context to how "floaty" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a gauzy floaty bright red and a warm floaty hush and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "floaty" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with floaty
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Broad just trying to tempt him with floaty ones outside off. (11 words)
They will sting you underwater, but if you see the floaty blue bubble you can keep your distance! (18 words)
Doctor Strange, being a floaty, mysterious, enigmatic and magic sort of guy, has all kinds of curious artifacts at his disposal. (21 words)
It’s not a modesty thing, or even an age thing, or at least not consciously; I just find that these days I feel more comfortable, less exposed, better able to take the heat in my stride, when I’ve got a long hemline and a floaty sleeve. (48 words)
It’s made with a soft and lightweight fabric for a floaty feel, this slip dress, which boasts spaghetti straps and a timeless relaxed silhouette, is sure to keep you looking and feeling cool this summer. (36 words)
Interiority is a generous condition in the music of Julie Byrne, who worked here with an understated command, singing in a warm, floaty hush and lightly fingerpicking her acoustic guitar. (30 words)
They will sting you underwater, but if you see the floaty blue bubble you can keep your distance! (18 words)
Example sentences (16)
Given the floaty nature of the flowers, thalictrums are well-suited to growing in herbaceous borders, bringing a relaxed, informal mood to your planting scheme.
The red is in homage to the original film clip for the song, which sees Bush dancing about the countryside in a gauzy, floaty bright red gown.
To offset the floaty, billowing sleeves, the £70 Mango dress cinched the Queen in at the waist and stops just below the knee.
It’s made with a soft and lightweight fabric for a floaty feel, this slip dress, which boasts spaghetti straps and a timeless relaxed silhouette, is sure to keep you looking and feeling cool this summer.
And he’s announced his desire to work more aggressively toward making tight pop music, the seeming antithesis of the floaty aesthetic he revels in on Tame Impala albums.
Natalie stood in a bubbly hot tub — one that was inside another, larger swimming pool — which had a small ring floaty on top of the water.
Similarly, Niamh Egleston, a 25-year-old student, sees jeans as “a relic of the before times” having switched to long, floaty skirts during lockdown.
As for the decontented suspension, the Millenia S still has a floaty, buttery smooth ride, even on the rough roads of Detroit.
Broad just trying to tempt him with floaty ones outside off.
Doctor Strange, being a floaty, mysterious, enigmatic and magic sort of guy, has all kinds of curious artifacts at his disposal.
Light, floaty dresses and blouses were edged with leather at the neck or cuff, while rope drew in the waist – and stitching defined silhouettes.
Meanwhile, younger sister Princess Sofia opted for a midi-length floaty white gown and appeared to carry a small white book into the building.
Interiority is a generous condition in the music of Julie Byrne, who worked here with an understated command, singing in a warm, floaty hush and lightly fingerpicking her acoustic guitar.
It’s not a modesty thing, or even an age thing, or at least not consciously; I just find that these days I feel more comfortable, less exposed, better able to take the heat in my stride, when I’ve got a long hemline and a floaty sleeve.
The pop star channelled the blonde movies star icon in New York while showing off this a floaty silver skirt on the weekend.
They will sting you underwater, but if you see the floaty blue bubble you can keep your distance!
Common combinations with floaty
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: