Sample Sentences for
buoyant
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buoyant as in:  buoyant force or market

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    The wooden boat is buoyant even without a captured pocket of air.
    buoyant = tends to float
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    "My swimming instructor said that I don't have the right boyishness or something." "Buoyancy," Jonas corrected him.  (source)
    Buoyancy = tendency to float
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    His Mae West was uninflated, but its buoyancy was pulling him into the ceiling of the plane.  (source)
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    Additional fact: if you relax, your body's buoyancy will cause you to float.  (source)
    buoyancy = tendency to float
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    The plane lurched upward buoyantly with the lightened load.†  (source)
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    A batsman who has played a fine innings will say afterward that he felt he could not miss the ball, and a speaker or an actor, on his lucky day, can sense his audience carrying him as though he were swimming in miraculous, buoyant water.  (source)
    buoyant = with a tendency to cause things in it to float
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    His escape from the bleak horror of disease and hysteria and death impending, that hung above his crouched family, left him with a sense of aerial buoyance, drunken freedom.†  (source)
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    In traditional tanks, the person would float on his back in a hyperbuoyant saline solution that kept his face above the water so he could breathe.  (source)
    hyperbuoyant = causing a greater tendency to float than normal water
    standard prefix: The prefix "hyper-" in hyperbuoyant means extremely or excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like hypersensitive, hyperactive, and hypercritical.
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    A cephalopod mollusk that pumps gas into its chambered shell to adjust its buoyancy.  (source)
    buoyancy = tendency to float
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    They hug again, promise to write, and soon the Cutlass is on its way to Boston and Cedric is strolling buoyantly back toward the dorm.†  (source)
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    The water was so buoyant that I felt I might float away if I loosed my hold on the bench.  (source)
    buoyant = with a tendency to cause things in it to float
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    In fact, the buoyancy of the life jackets was such that they...  (source)
    buoyancy = tendency to float
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    Uncle Albert also got the message, or perhaps he had received more direct communications, for when the song was done Angeline and George trotted buoyantly off together, while Albert mooched morosely down to the den and settled himself in for an all-night siege of pups.†  (source)
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buoyant as in:  buoyant personality

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People like to work with her because of her buoyant personality.
buoyant = cheerful and optimistic
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    Students are in buoyant spirits with the start of the winter break.
    buoyant = cheerful
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    I asked as Lucy stopped in front of me to give a buoyant curtsy.  (source)
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    Every other teacher in the place was looking grimmer than usual, but Lockhart appeared nothing short of buoyant.  (source)
    buoyant = cheerful and optimistic
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    He came toward her with his light buoyant step, carrying under his arm a bulky package wrapped in a bit of sailcloth.  (source)
    buoyant = cheerful
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    Quincey wrote me a line too, and from him I hear that Arthur is beginning to recover something of his old buoyancy, so as to them all my mind is at rest.  (source)
    buoyancy = cheerfulness and optimism
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    "That Deutscher," he summed up buoyantly.  (source)
    buoyantly = cheerfully
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    Normally buoyant, she had a drawn look on her face.  (source)
    buoyant = cheerful
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    Every morning she woke with a new confidence and buoyancy she could not explain.  (source)
    buoyancy = lightheartedness or cheerfulness
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    She left the rabbi's office in a buoyant mood.  (source)
    buoyant = cheerful and optimistic
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    The young ailing girl who had caused her mother so much heartache had been transformed, almost overnight, into a healthy, buoyant maiden.  (source)
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    She had auburn hair, a curvy figure, a buoyant disposition, a quick mind, and a family cat named Chopper.  (source)
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    Your habitual expression in those days, Jane, was a thoughtful look; not despondent, for you were not sickly; but not buoyant, for you had little hope, and no actual pleasure.  (source)
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    And, hard though it be to crush her buoyant spirit, I must persevere in making her sad while I live, and leaving her solitary when I die.  (source)
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