How to Use buoyant in a Sentence

buoyant

adjective
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  • Warm air is more buoyant than cool air.
  • The actors were buoyant as they prepared for the evening's performance.
  • The mood was sleepy but buoyant as the ship made its way through the dark azure water, which plunges some 2,000 feet.
    — Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • When the sun shines on the dark balloons, the air inside heats up and becomes buoyant.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2023
  • Daniel Hart’s airy scores adds a playful and buoyant touch.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Most fish have a swim bladder, or a sac of air inside its body to keep buoyant.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The light-is-dark/dark-is-light jokes notwithstanding, the tone is buoyant.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The Kraffts, rockstar scientists in their field, are seen in a buoyant mood in archival footage.
    — Henry Hullah, CNN, 28 July 2022
  • The fossilized liver was quite large and likely helped the fish stay buoyant, per the authors.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2022
  • This add-on set includes five buoyant pieces that attach to the net to keep it above water.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 13 June 2023
  • Safety suits can keep you from getting your air knocked out and keep you buoyant.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Despite inflation and the massive hike in fuel costs across the EU, the boat show crowd seemed buoyant.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The buoyant waltz themes of Rael Jones’ score fit the material to perfection.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2022
  • Reum, a boyish and buoyant Midwesterner in navy sweats, lopes into the room to check on his wife.
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Foam does a great job of staying lightweight and buoyant, even when it’s submerged in water.
    — Olivia Avitt, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • Prices in the service sector, too, have remained buoyant.
    — Quartz, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Big Tech stocks were some of the most buoyant forces on Wall Street following the inflation report.
    — Stan Choe, ajc, 10 Nov. 2022
  • When money was cheap and markets were buoyant, buyers could make the numbers work.
    — Anthony Bahr, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The stakes are higher for the top brass, as the buoyant economy and record-setting stock market made the CEOs look like geniuses.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • The two-lobed liver was large and probably helped keep the fish buoyant, much like shark livers do today, Ahlberg says.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The men were reportedly wearing buoyant ice suits that kept them afloat.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Sadly, the track, which is as buoyant and bittersweet as some of the label’s biggest hits, has been, for the most part, forgotten.
    — Melissa Giannini, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
  • While the stations may be gorgeous but a bit lonesome, the train experience is buoyant and alive.
    — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Yet the markets have been remarkably buoyant over much of the past several months, despite the Fed’s efforts.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The effort to credit the president with what, on paper, seems like a buoyant economy curdled in the pan.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The San Francisco luxury market has been one of the nation’s most buoyant over the past decade, though signs of contraction have emerged.
    — David Kaufman, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2022
  • This is because the hot, buoyant air in the Central Valley rises during the afternoon and evening and acts as a vacuum.
    — Anthony Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2023
  • From the thoughtful slow introduction to the buoyant Finale, Dudamel allowed nothing to break the thread.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • Variety reached out to the administrations of all the competing cities and the mood appears to be buoyant.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 July 2022
  • Its buoyant grandeur could also call to mind Sibelius’s 2nd, premiered four years earlier.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022

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