Buoyant Sentence Examples

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  • From youth to age he describes himself as gifted with a buoyant temper.

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  • Its eggs are buoyant and pelagic and easily recognized.

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  • Provision has also been made for rendering the sector buoyant by forcing air into it, so that it can be raised when the head of water is insufficient to lift it by the pressure of the water from the upper pool.

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  • Spawning takes place in June and July, and the eggs, like those of the majority of marine fishes, are buoyant and transparent, but they are peculiar in having an elongated, sausage-like shape, instead of being globular.

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  • The buoyant motion of the water filled me with an exquisite, quivering joy.

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  • Good news larger businesses seem fairly buoyant with some growth in trade.

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  • For many people, once they discover how naturally buoyant the body is, swimming becomes a pleasant joy.

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  • It spawns at a distance from the shore, and its eggs are buoyant, like those of many other marine fishes and unlike those of the herring, which are adhesive and demersal, i.e.

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  • The neoprene material makes the suits fairly waterproof, buoyant, and stretchable.

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  • The poet wears an air of exalted superiority over the religious innovators of his day, and entertains a buoyant confidence that the future of the ancient gods of Rome will not belie their glorious past.

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  • At 8m they turned up the right way to dump air from their suits and they conducted an uncontrolled buoyant ascent to the surface.

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  • The engine room was pumped out to make the craft buoyant, ready for the final trip in to the Humber.

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  • The result was buoyant, extravagant, jewelry that women hungered for and cost less than comparable gem-bedecked pieces.

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  • Styling hair into soft, buoyant curls was quite an undertaking back in those days.

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  • The lively, buoyant quality of Mardi Gras encourages the costume of a jokester or trickster.

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  • The normal type is light-hearted and buoyant.

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  • Nick Bennet's surveying tool lives in a long, neutrally buoyant tube held at arms length from the diver.

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  • Notwithstanding the recent wins, our pipeline of new sales prospects remains extremely buoyant.

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  • This fish does not have a swim bladder, the device used by most bony fish to keep buoyant.

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  • With the possible exception of private client work, the Scottish market is buoyant across the range.

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  • Each female can produce up to half a million tiny eggs, each containing a globule of oil that makes the egg buoyant.

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  • She turned away and was about to ask the countess again how to go to him, when light, impetuous, and seemingly buoyant steps were heard at the door.

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  • Very fine, thin hair, for example, wouldn't support buoyant curls very well on a daily basis.

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  • One of the first things many adults discover in learning to swim is that the body is naturally buoyant and that it is actually harder to drown than expected.

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  • Some of the most popular toys in recent years include a buoyant pogo stick that bounces across the pool’s bottom as the kid’s head bobs up and down in the water.

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  • Fashion-conscious women will likely have a hard time narrowing down their choice of wallet to just one With styles that range from rich and dramatic to bright and buoyant, there's a wallet for all personalities, ages and senses of style.

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  • Read a profile about Sagittarius in order to better understand this buoyant and explorative sign.

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  • You do need negatively buoyant cylinders to combat the positive buoyancy of all your insulation.

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  • Domestic demand maintained relatively buoyant with UK high street sales growing at 5.6% .

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  • Activity remained buoyant with a 6.9% increase in traffic on 5.6% higher capacity.

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  • By this time we'd all had some whiz and were once again feeling buoyant.

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  • Nonetheless, " The RNA tumor viruses also have buoyant densities that coincide with those of certain cellular constituents.

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  • To me, buoyant and impatient, the people in the play appeared preposterous.

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  • Intermodal flows on the other hand are more buoyant, with just under half of rail shippers anticipating growth.

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  • If there is a stable stratification they may also become less buoyant as the ambient air becomes less dense.

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  • The body becomes buoyant, and in the case of the sloth, virtually weightless.

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  • There is less in common than is often supposed between the buoyant energy that led Grant to Shiloh and the grim plodding determination that led him to Vicksburg and to Appomattox.

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  • From low-key waves to buoyant, bouncy curls, this iron creates a variety of looks with finesse.

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  • Air only - term used to describe a life jacket that only becomes buoyant upon filling with gas.

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  • As with other flatfish, the turbot's eggs contain a droplet of oil that makes the eggs positively buoyant.

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  • It is particularly easy to see how women could stray too near an open fire in their large, buoyant crinolines.

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  • At the time of the buoyant ascent the computer had ' cleared ' .

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  • As soon as Natasha, sitting at the head of Prince Andrew's bed, heard of Princess Mary's arrival, she softly left his room and hastened to her with those swift steps that had sounded buoyant to Princess Mary.

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