Sentence examples of "flottait" in French with translation "float"

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Une feuille morte flottait à la surface de l'eau. A fallen leaf floated on the surface of the water.
Une pierre ne flotte pas. A stone does not float.
Une balle descend la rivière en flottant. A ball is floating down the river.
Un ballon descend la rivière en flottant. A ball is floating down the river.
Le bois flotte, mais le fer coule. Wood floats, but iron sinks.
Les nuages flottant dans le ciel sont magnifiques. The clouds floating in the sky are beautiful.
Un nuage blanc flotte dans le ciel bleu. A white cloud is floating in the blue sky.
Les pétales flottaient sur la surface de l'eau. The petals floated on the surface of the water.
Un nuage blanc flotte dans le ciel bleu d'été. A white cloud is floating in the blue summer sky.
Des feuilles mortes flottent à la surface de l'eau. Dry leaves float on the water's surface.
Ne savais-tu pas que le pétrole flotte sur l'eau ? Didn't you know that oil floats on water?
Ne saviez-vous pas que l'huile flotte sur l'eau ? Didn't you know that oil floats on water?
Une des qualités de l'huile est qu'elle flotte sur l'eau. One quality of oil is that it floats on water.
Bientôt, je ne pus voir que son cou, flotter au-dessus des vagues. Soon, I could only see her neck floating above the waves.
L'astronaute perdit sa prise sur la clé anglaise et tout ce qu'il pouvait faire était de regarder avec désarroi tandis qu'elle s'éloignait sereinement en flottant. The astronaut lost his grip on the wrench and all he could do was watch in dismay as it floated serenely away.
Dieu ferait-il que je sois un tendre bourgeon de pommier, qui flotte et du rameau tordu choit, pour se coucher et s'évanouir en votre sein de soie, en votre sein de soie comme il le fait séant. Would God, I were the tender apple blossom, That floats and falls from off the twisted bough, To lie and faint within your silken bosom, Within your silken bosom as that does now.
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