How to Use levitation in a Sentence

levitation

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  • Kai rode his first three waves at Pe‘ahi in a state of levitation.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • In addition to this, there are no contact areas between the track and the pod, due to the levitation.
    — Alice Bonasio, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The levitation is almost like a metaphor for just trying to see things from a higher ground.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 July 2022
  • So instead, the BYU team figured out how to do a sort of controlled levitation.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Magnetic levitation lifts a train car above a track, as the magnets' like poles push the train upward.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The show follows a group of friends who decide to play the classic sleepover levitation game, light as a feather.
    — Sarah Grace Hart, Teen Vogue, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Over Skype, Timms talked with a researcher in Japan who worked on the magnetic-levitation systems used in high-speed trains.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2021
  • So how to get the levitation without disturbing the air remains a mystery.
    — Jeff Burlew, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Since the 1940s, scientists have toyed with the concept of acoustic levitation, the use of soundwave vibrations to trap tiny objects in midair.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Magnetic levitation has been used on some train systems since the 1970s.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Acoustic levitation isn’t new; scientists have used sound to suspend small spheres and water droplets in midair for years.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2016
  • Psychic metal bending wasn’t among the dozen or so genres of magic, like card tricks or levitation.
    — David Segal, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
  • So perhaps this is not such a good use for magnetic levitation after all.
    — miamiherald, 1 Jan. 1950
  • A series of magnets attached to the motor spin at up to 2,000 revolutions per minute to achieve levitation when placed in the tube, which has a copper plate along its entire base.
    — Kevin Kelly, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2017
  • Stranger even than the migratory flow of butterflies or the onslaught of locusts is the mass levitation of minute spiders observed above Yosemite.
    — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Wanda’s levitation was done on wires and rods, instead of the typical Marvel special effects we’re used to.
    — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Sure, some of the more out-there options—like my levitation selfie above—are easier to do with a DSLR camera, a remote shutter release, and a tripod.
    — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 17 June 2020
  • Not exactly hiding a card under the levitation cloak there, Doc.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Maas helped curate the Levitation festival of psychedelic music in Austin for a decade and hopes to bring it back in 2018 after it was canceled last year because of a storm.
    — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
  • The novel’s title refers to a mysterious object on top of which his home is built, which causes levitation and rearranges rooms.
    — The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Upon levitation, a fan starts blowing to rotate your kicks endlessly in midair.
    — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2022
  • As the show’s subtitle suggests, evoking lightness and levitation was clearly a goal; some paintings here seem ready for takeoff.
    — Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener, Will Heinrich and Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2018
  • These findings could lead to new medical tools, hands-free production lines and even human levitation.
    — Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2018
  • What would any respectable magic show be without a levitation, a woman being sawed in half or a metamorphosis?
    — Mel Shields, sacbee, 20 July 2017
  • Magnetic levitation was already used on high-speed trains in Japan and Germany, and low-pressure pneumatic tubes have been used to move objects since the early 19th century.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
  • One of Smith’s remote learning assignments for her photography class required her to edit a picture in a way that gave the illusion of levitation.
    — Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 5 Apr. 2020
  • On great days, that investment results in something like levitation.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • Newman adds that the plates’ tininess and levitation ability could also be intriguing for Mars research.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The 40-mile superconducting system for the magnetic-levitation train would be the first leg of a rail system that would carry passengers between Washington and New York in an hour.
    — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
  • But hopes that levitation meant that LK-99 is a superconductor were dashed this week after another preprint posed another explanation for why the material might float.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2023

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