Antonym: ashore. Similar words: float, floating, loathe, bloated, loathsome, moat, boat, goat. Meaning: [ə'fləʊt] adj. 1. aimlessly drifting 2. borne on the water; floating 3. covered with water.
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(31) His business is facing difficulties, but it is staying afloat.
(32) They will have to borrow £10 million next year, just to stay afloat.
(33) We kept her afloat for a couple of hours by bailing frantically.
(34) He managed to keep/stay afloat by holding on to the side of the boat.
(35) The Normandie, due on May 18, promises luxury afloat.
(36) Originally designed as freight ships, these may not be the most glamorous vessels afloat, but are pleasantly spacious.
(37) A Thames barge has no keel and is afloat in the first few inches of shoal water.
(38) Often[sentencedict.com], the government would do better just to pay displaced workers to stay home rather than artificially keep the business afloat.
(39) And because dense bones tend to sink, black swimmers need to work much harder and expend more energy to keep afloat.
(40) Stress is high, but in all likelihood, enough things are going well to keep you afloat for now.
(41) It would have been everything just to keep her steady, facing that way, just to stay afloat.
(42) She used legal skills and political clout to keep the wayward thrift afloat.
(43) She knew that in between Formula One obligations he had, amazingly, managed to keep his construction interests afloat.
(44) Finally, Fellowship Afloat are looking for a new chief sailing instructor.
(45) Much refreshed, and afloat in the deep tranquillity of calm after storm, Rainbow returns to her aunt's hotel.
(46) All creatures that live in the plankton have to devise means of staying afloat.
(47) The Chattahoochee was too shallow to keep barges afloat in the navigable waterway south of Atlanta.
(48) In the hall light,[www.Sentencedict.com] he had the odd notion that the Commander was afloat on a full and soundless tide.
(49) There was no case of leakage and several of the boats were still afloat month after being cast adrift.
(50) So the federal government must make a special effort to keep AIDS vaccine research afloat, Gallo said.
(51) At 14 stories high and three football fields in length, it is the biggest passenger ship afloat.
(52) Our plans are afloat.
(53) That evening I was all right - Joanna would be afloat in the late afternoon, and I could get away before dark.
(54) Those in the water tried to hold on to the boats that were still afloat.
(55) Relentless international touring was to keep the company afloat financially for three years.
(56) With careful management and unadventurous policies the Crown could, however, keep afloat.
(57) In spite of my warnings about leaving the boat where it would stay afloat, the inevitable had happened and he was stranded.
(58) Vessels could now lie afloat throughout their stay in port.
(59) Now it is pleading with the banks to reschedule £250m of borrowings to keep the company afloat.
(60) When Chola got up in the morning the hut was like a dark capsule afloat in mist.