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.
adj. 1. aimlessly drifting 2. borne on the water; floating 3. covered with water. 
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(91) You'll never keep afloat if you keep throwing your arms and legs about like that; you have to make the proper swimming stroke.
(92) In the end, the ambitious pic is kept afloat by Zhou's engagingly winsome perf as Baober, a role arguably no other actress could have pulled off.
(93) The fisherman was bailing out the water to keep his boat afloat.
(94) While water can keep a boat afloat, it can also overturn it.
(95) Body: The body is kept afloat by a material called syntactic foam, which consists of billions of tiny air-filled glass spheres embedded in an epoxy resin, like hardened Styrofoam.
(96) Most countries avoid the legislation of stock afloat transaction with intention on account of its specific characteristic.
(97) According to Naomi Fink of the banking arm of MUFG, much of the liquidity available is in the form of inter-company loans, meaning that big firms keep their suppliers afloat.
(98) A number of efforts were being made to keep the company afloat.
(99) We have to get out of the red, if we want to stay afloat.
(100) According to the Book of Exodus, he was born in Egypt to Hebrew parents, who set him afloat on the Nile in a reed basket to save him from an edict calling for the death of all newborn Hebrew males.
(101) But the question we really should be asking is: why keep insolvent banks afloat?
(102) A single air group, whether afloat or land based, can now deliver to any reachable target a destructive cargo exceeding in power all the bombs that fell on Britain in all of World War II.
(103) This one is probably debatable by many project managers who currently have a detailed schedule but still find themselves struggling each day just to stay afloat.
(104) Theirs was the only boat afloat on this endless expanse of water like rippling quicksilver.
(105) "How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat, " the president said,(www.Sentencedict.com) adding that the insurer is in financial straits because of "recklessness and greed.