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Meanings of floating object in English

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Usage of floating object in English
1
For a floating object, the buoyancy force is equal to the gravitational force.
Wired
2
They both saw the floating object at the same time.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
3
Phil was silent, and his gaze was once more directed to the floating object.
Lost in the Fog
4
Just then ecologist Chris Huxley picked a small green floating object out of the water.
The Irish Times
5
Fisheye, if any other floating object comes within a hundred feet of us, sink it.
Snow Crash
6
Max turned his attention once more up the stream, and toward that approaching floating object.
Afloat on the Flood
7
Keeping his eyes turned toward the black, floating object, Dick swam easily to the spot.
The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics
8
Thorvald swam strongly toward the floating object.
Storm Over Warlock
9
Those who could not swim soon went under, unless they succeeded in getting hold of some floating object.
The Coming Conquest of England
10
A Vietnam navy boat investigated the possibility it could be a life raft and salvaged the floating object.
News.com.au
11
Then all regarded attentively the floating object which the waves were rocking, three miles from the "Pilgrim."
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
12
He had evidently peopled every dark corner with a pirate, and every floating object had meant something to him.
Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis
13
Then, seeing a black floating object, he started after it, his stroke apparently none the weaker after his swift race.
The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics
14
At length he put his hand on Phil's shoulder, and directed the attention of the boys to the floating object.
Lost in the Fog
15
Hope was at last beginning to die within Louis's breast, when he observed a raven circling round some floating object.
The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood
16
At the same moment he thought he heard some sound outside, as if a floating object had struck against the anchored shanty-boat.
The House Boat Boys; Or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South
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