floats

/ fləʊts /

plural noun

1. theatre another word for footlights

Example Sentences

The parade, which dates back to the 13th Century, featured about 7,000 people, 250 horses and 150 floats, from Guildhall to the Royal Courts of Justice on Saturday.

From BBC

To underscore this narrative, Shroyer floats irrelevant questions about "the economy."

From Salon

Obst’s film credits also include “Adventures in Babysitting,” “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Hope Floats” and “Someone Like You.”

From Los Angeles Times

In that case, Clark makes the radical claim that federal law completely preempts the bar from enforcing rules that impede lawyers in the “exigencies of federal service” and floats the unprecedented idea that presidential immunity permits lawyers serving the president from practicing “without complying with Rules of Professional Conduct”—an argument that, the bar noted, would “attack the very idea of holding lawyers to bar standards.”

From Slate

“The ship becomes lighter and so floats a little higher. Similarly, when the crust becomes lighter… it can float a little higher.”

From BBC