The water reflected the gray-blue of the darkening sky, and the lights of the water-pumping stations had come on, making them look like a line of floating gazebos.

NEWYORKER: Great Experiment

If you do manage to click an icon, the comment itself is now presented in a single horizontal line rather than a floating balloon in the old SoundCloud.

ENGADGET: Editorial: the new SoundCloud is optimized for listeners, not uploaders

If an object floating through space passes near the line of sight between the earth and a distant star, its gravity should, according to the theory of relativity, bend and focus the light from that star.

ECONOMIST: The dark side of cosmology

In places, the ground was so boggy the line had to be laid on a floating raft of logs, where it is still ironed flat by passing trains.

BBC: Full steam ahead

In photographs of his grade-school classes, he always looked out of place, his grinning, elephant-eared face floating like a parade balloon above the other kids in line.

NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World

The outside centre picked a superb line to bust what was left of the Ospreys defence, before floating the killer pass long and wide to right wing Czekaj.

BBC: Blues lock Deiniol Jones scored the game's opening try

Richard Fussell should have scored just after the break after Lee Byrne kept in Biggar's long, floating pass but the Ospreys wing could not touch the ball down after barging over the line.

BBC: Heineken Cup: Ospreys 29-17 Toulon

Every one of you knows that because we were in floating reserve at Okinawa and only made that decoy landing it puts us No. 1 in line to be the spearhead division for Japan.

NEWYORKER: Rat Beach