How to Use levitate in a Sentence

levitate

verb

• The woman levitated above the stage.
• The magician claimed he could levitate a car.
• Aboard the Edge is a Magic Carpet, a 90-ton platform that levitates up and down the side of the ship.
  — CBS News, 28 July 2019
• The pods will be pulled by magnets to levitate within the tube.
  — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 17 Sep. 2017
• During the performance, a woman with a white veil over her face seems to levitate in the middle of the rest of the dancers.
  — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 27 June 2024
• Those guys could stop on a dime and turn it around and do anything, float through space and gyrate and levitate.
  — Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• The two plates that make up the work are only 2 inches thick and a section appears to levitate off the ground.
  — Luke Kurtis, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2020
• The reputation of the food has been mediocre at best over the years; Fullilove now aims to make taste buds levitate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2019
• Fluffy white tigers would levitate in the air, and elephants would disappear right in front of your eyes.
  — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• In the real world, Max begins to levitate, a sure sign things aren’t going so hot.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 2 July 2022
• Instead, the team used magnets to levitate the pod, such as the ones found in Maglev trains like the Shanghai Transrapid.
  — Alice Bonasio, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2018
• The guard dashed past the arc and levitated for a jumper on the elbow with lengthy defender Kelly Oubre Jr. over him.
  — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2024
• Nutshell: the Magic Speed 2 is best for days when you’re rested and ready to levitate, be that in a race or on speedy training days.
  — Cory Smith, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2022
• Tyla levitated up the 2024 Met Gala steps thanks to a few helping hands.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
• In the case of the bead, the optical tweezers could be used to levitate it, freeing it from contact with any surface.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2020
• Physicists have known how to levitate water for more than 260 years.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2022
• And when characters levitate off the ground, as they do from time to time, the effect is managed by — well, see for yourself.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• With Sante dead, Valente recognizes that the witches must leave, and levitates them all out of the Serra town square.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2020
• The tablet almost appears to levitate when viewed from the front, and the weight of its sturdy base adds just enough balance to prevent it from tipping over.
  — Quentyn Kennemer, The Verge, 15 Apr. 2024
• High-speed maglev trains make extensive use of such magnets to levitate the cars above their tracks.
  — Hugh Aldersey-Williams, Discover Magazine, 21 Sep. 2011
• The metal melted, turned into vapor, and then began to levitate, held aloft by the field.
  — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Wired, 7 June 2021
• But recently, the hot job market has levitated the wage scale even more.
  — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Eleven uses Kali’s advice to let her anger fuel her powers and manages to levitate for the first time.
  — cleveland, 6 Aug. 2022
• To his followers, Li is a God-like figure who can levitate, walk through walls and see into the future.
  — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
• The Olympic torch levitated like a giant hot-air balloon.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• Slender white columns raise the structure 5 feet 3 inches off the ground, and a broad flight of stairs, which seem to levitate as if by magnetism, connects it to the lawn below.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
• Gracia seemed to levitate before falling backward to the turf, his legs helplessly in the air.
  — Jere Longman New York Times, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
• Walk me through the actual process of playing a levitating head.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2023
• The teams showcased different ways to levitate their pods.
  — National Geographic, 23 Feb. 2016
• Ammons and Campbell said the 12-year-old was levitating above the bed, unconscious.
  — Marisa Kwiatkowski, Indianapolis Star, 25 Jan. 2014

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024