How to Use levitate in a Sentence

levitate

verb
  • The woman levitated above the stage.
  • The magician claimed he could levitate a car.
  • Thus, from fault to fault, from void to void, humans levitate.
    — Elinore Weil, Artforum, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The pods will be pulled by magnets to levitate within the tube.
    — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 17 Sep. 2017
  • The drops levitate, sliding around the pan with wild abandon.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • This system can levitate even at a standstill.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Fluffy white tigers would levitate in the air, and elephants would disappear right in front of your eyes.
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • But recently, the hot job market has levitated the wage scale even more.
    — Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • In the real world, Max begins to levitate, a sure sign things aren’t going so hot.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 2 July 2022
  • Make the broom fly, or make the monkeys grow wings, or make Elphaba levitate.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Physicists have known how to levitate water for more than 260 years.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 10 Feb. 2022
  • What would football look like if the players were just levitating torsos?
    — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • 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 child is strong in the Force and saves Din by levitating a creature that was about to kill him.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 16 May 2026
  • Walk me through the actual process of playing a levitating head.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The metal melted, turned into vapor, and then began to levitate, held aloft by the field.
    — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Wired, 7 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Apple-Man is a satire about a superhero who can levitate apples.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • Eleven uses Kali’s advice to let her anger fuel her powers and manages to levitate for the first time.
    — cleveland, 6 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Since then, scientists have used vibrations to make liquids levitate in midair and to get air bubbles to sink rather than rise.
    — Edd Gent, Science | AAAS, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Backlit by a bewitching blend of blue and soft yellow, the crucifix seems to levitate.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 May 2018
  • In the presence of a magnetic field, such materials levitate, as did the disk.
    — Tom Avril, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • As Sissy drives away, Harlan can be seen using telekinesis to levitate a toy.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The garment goes down to her calves, and when the two later hold each other while levitating, the cardigan in fact seems to gets longer in real time.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2025
  • 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

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