float - use in sentences

Object

  • caliper: Brakes; Front - 240 mm stainless steel disk with floating three pistons caliper and integral braking.
  • tactic: Whilst most areas have fished well, the dam and early peg numbers continue to fish best to both pole and float tactics.
  • free-kick: Cruse floated a free-kick into the area which Mark Odom headed across goal but John McMahon's diving header went narrowly wide.
  • y: String getToolTipText ( float x, float y, Shape allocation ) Returns the tooltip text at the specified location.

Converse of object

  • decorate: As part of our Community Activity Day, I was helping to decorate the float.

Preposition: on

  • surface: By merely floating on the surface of the water, can you reach the gems lying at the bottom of the sea?

Noun phrase with adjective complement

  • only.: This field is meaningful for floating point types only. static T min ( ) throw( ; Returns the minimum finite value.

Modifies a noun

  • loadfactor: HashMap ( int initialCapacity, float loadFactor ) Constructs an empty HashMap with the specified initial capacity and load factor.
  • tactic: Both pole and float tactics are working best whilst the feeder is taking bream further out along the middle pegs.
  • rod: Interestingly, the carp all came from the float ledger rod.
  • getpreferredspan: Returns: always returns true getPreferredSpan public abstract float getPreferredSpan ( int axis ) Determines the preferred span for this view along an axis.
  • readfloat: See Also: FilterInputStream.in readFloat public final float readFloat ( ) throws IOException See the general contract of the readFloat method of DataInput.
  • rig: Float or running pole float rigs also work well fishing baits both on bottom and on the drop.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • around: The height at which they float around at is defined by weights in the form of paper clips on usually their arms or legs.

Adjective complement

  • downstream: As one review observed, " you float downstream gritting your teeth.

Preposition: in

  • mid-air: Can you imagine an animated alarm clock that also displays full-motion messages that appear to float in mid-air?

Preposition: under

  • stalagtites: Float under stalagtites, see ancient skeletons and pottery and prepare to be awstruck by cathedral-like caverns.

Noun used with modifier

  • milk: Milk Floats give a particular clatter each time they go over these humps - no matter how slowly they try to go.
  • stick: Using this method stick float can produce fish in high water conditions, slowing the bait up for the fish to respond.

Preposition: like

  • butterfly: Only if this angel floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.

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