How to Use floater in a Sentence

floater

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  • Finn: Jaylen up to 32 points with a floater in the lane to cut the Heat lead to 6.
    — Nicole Yang, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • Flagler hit a 3 and made a nifty floater in the lane to make it 5-0.
    — Stephen Hawkins, Chron, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Clouden followed with a floater off the backboard to push the lead to nine.
    — Eli McKown, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2022
  • And then their point guard (Chucky Hepburn) got in the lane and had the shot-clock floater.
    — Ben Steele, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2021
  • In the pick and roll, get into my mid-range or to the basket or a floater.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2023
  • But the Aztecs calmly ran a play for Pulliam, who hit a floater in the lane.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Nice floater from Allen Flanigan to put Auburn in front.
    — Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Gilmore stayed with him and forced a tough floater with 12.1 seconds left.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Jordan Whitfield made a floater as time expired in the first OT to tie the game.
    — Noah Trister, ajc, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Young drove into the lane and found some open space for a floater, but wasn’t able to convert.
    — Ryan McFadden, Baltimore Sun, 11 Dec. 2022
  • But the rest of the team couldn’t find a single shot that would fall — not a floater, not a free throw, not a 3-pointer.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • All-Star knocking down an absurd floater from three in the first half.
    — Joe Morgan, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • His most notable play of the first half was when Williams drove to the basket like a guard and made a weak-hand floater.
    — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2022
  • His signature move is getting to the lane for a floater.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
  • The former seemed to rise up for a floater, but instead pushed a lob to the center, who threw it down.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Toward the end of the fourth, Brunson hit an elegant floater to tie the game.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The Cavs made one field goal in the final 4:55 after an Okoro floater.
    — Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023
  • That set up the DeJulius floater that sent his teammates storming the court.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Then Christie drained a 3-pointer, Hoggard hit a floater, and Hall drove through the lane and scored at the other side of the rim.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 12 Mar. 2022
  • And Hayes added a floater not long after to tie his career-high with 26 points.
    — Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The Spartans came out of the timeout, and Walker hit a midpaint floater off a bounce pass in the lane from Jaden Akins.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2023
  • But a floater from Jones — intended for Parker — was picked off in the end zone.
    — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Rider's Dwight Murray Jr. sank a floater with 7.3 seconds left to knock off the Gaels.
    — Jake Adams, The Courier-Journal, 10 Mar. 2022
  • At one point in the second quarter, Sander barreled into the lane and flipped up a floater.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Then Morant made a running floater with under 30 seconds left to put the game on ice.
    — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 May 2022
  • Bradley scored on a floater in the lane, was fouled and missed the free throw, only for Arkansas to lose the rebound out of bounds.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
  • In the Murphy game, Daniel Miller hit a floater as time expired to send the game into overtime.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Eric Gordon made a floater to put the Rockets ahead 35-33.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Mercury legend Diana Taurasi took a floater that missed but went out of bounds off the Fever.
    — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Williams opened the scoring in the fourth quarter with a spin-counter layup, and Suder turned the corner for a floater from the left baseline.
    — Andy Yamashita, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2021

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