set afloat

Now she wanted only a slight shove to be set afloat.

The family home was set afloat with his parents and 15 refugees from the storm aboard.

Before the last wagon moved to the ford, one raft was set afloat to drift downstream.

They were taken on board for 18 hours, given food, water, medical treatment, and set afloat again a short distance from one of the Japanese islands.

A famous example is the ark of bulrushes in which the baby Moses was set afloat.

Though with some effort, the pan with its chair was hoisted up and set afloat on the oil.

The logs are traditionally set afloat as rafts in the river Mahanadi.

While still ashore, the king and queen were placed in a canoe and set afloat.

Meanwhile, tumultuous thoughts were again set afloat by a proposal made to me by my uncle.

Take a vessel filled with water and set afloat in it a cork into which you have stuck an iron needle.

Ban says he was thinking about the Japanese tradition of paper boxes with candles, set afloat as memorials to heal the dead.

The above account was set afloat during the medieval age which is marked by ascendancy of powerful Rajput warriors.

It contained a stork egg, smashed in shell and set afloat in the liquid.

one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

One of the tribesmen crafts a piñata, to which the tribe put their evil into and set afloat in the ocean.

And set afloat in the river afterwards, with the intent he should be reckoned as one more among the many drowned in Severn.

Or, to set afloat a more transcendent vocabulary: science is about God's work; literature is about our work.

The lighted pumpkins are set afloat, as shown in the photo at left by Sara Cedar Miller.

The bamboo and decorations are often set afloat on a river or burned after the festival, around midnight or on the next day.

In addition to Aadipperukku where lighted lamps are set afloat in the river Cauvery.

"I mentioned," the doctor said, "in a sort of casual way, that treasure is generally buried in the earth rather than set afloat upon the sea.

Old Singleton once more repurchased the honour of his name, this time at a fancy figure; and Norris was set afloat again on stern conditions.

The witches are put into two separate coffins which are then set afloat on two separate bodies of water.

The statement was recently set afloat that a well-known lady had admitted that George Meredith understands women better than any writer who has preceded him.

Her name was really built up out of newspaper paragraphs set afloat by her husband, who was a small-salaried minor journalist."