How to Use levitation in a Sentence

levitation

noun
  • Kai rode his first three waves at Pe‘ahi in a state of levitation.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • 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 perhaps this is not such a good use for magnetic levitation after all.
    — miamiherald, 1 Jan. 1950
  • Those that fall are lifted out of the way, as if by levitation, then lowered back into place after each frame.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Magnetic levitation lifts a train car above a track, as the magnets' like poles push the train upward.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 8 Nov. 2020
  • But that levitation was quickly followed by a steep decline.
    — Noah Galuten, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • So how to get the levitation without disturbing the air remains a mystery.
    — Jeff Burlew, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Upon levitation, a fan starts blowing to rotate your kicks endlessly in midair.
    — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 7 Dec. 2022
  • On great days, that investment results in something like levitation.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • These findings could lead to new medical tools, hands-free production lines and even human levitation.
    — Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Not exactly hiding a card under the levitation cloak there, Doc.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Magnetic levitation has been used on some train systems since the 1970s.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Any weight beyond that stopped levitation and movement entirely.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • After all, this levitation answers the question hanging over the entire 10 episodes.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • After wiping out at first, AJ feels the levitation and poetry of surfing.
    — Marya E. Gates, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Isaac Okoro attempted a newfound form of levitation to keep the ball in bounds, tapping the ball to himself, then to Tre Jones.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Newman adds that the plates’ tininess and levitation ability could also be intriguing for Mars research.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Underneath all that is what looks like a solid third-person shooter where levitation and telekenesis lead to some impactful freeform action.
    — Kyle Orland, Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 19 June 2018
  • Floating staircases are sometimes open between the treads, furthering the feeling of levitation.
    — Lia Picard, WSJ, 20 May 2021
  • These scholars have argued that all those odd things—levitation, bilocation, miracles of all kinds, witchcraft—really did happen.
    — Chandler Fritz, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2026

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