Sentence example with the word 'buoyancy'

buoyancy

adaptability, breeziness, daintiness, elasticity, floatability, give, levity, liveliness, resiliency, springiness, tone, weightlessness

Definition n. cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface

Last update: September 11, 2015


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It is worse; for you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning; and only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and simultaneousness of volition and action, can you escape being made a Mazeppa of, and run away with where the all-seeing sun himself could never pierce you out.   [Please select]

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After lunch, however, my brother-in-law's natural buoyancy reasserted itself by degrees.   [Please select]

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Why, you are losing all your old wit and buoyancy, you are actually growing serious.   [Please select]

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Blessington looked at her, then smiled again, his buoyancy restored.   [Please select]

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Lame feet failed to ache, and tired knees had all the buoyancy of youth again.   [Please select]

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Out here in the ruined town much of his extraordinary buoyancy departed.   [Please select]

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"Here I am," he said, with an attempt at buoyancy, and sat down.   [Please select]

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