If a leaf or something floated over your eye, that would be it, forever.

To his disappointment, it appeared to be nothing more than tea with a few leaves floating on the surface.

It's like a leaf floating on the river's current.

The floating plants are rooted in the mud, but some or all their leaves float on the surface of the water.

Dead leaves float in the brown, stagnant water like debris from an explosion.

The large, flat leaves are green with purple or brown patterning, and float on the surface of the water.

She looked into her cup, as if she could glean information from the leaves floating there.

Nymphaeids: plants rooted in the bottom, but with leaves floating on the water surface.

The drumming stopped, and falling leaves floated around them like a green snowstorm.

The shadow of a falling leaf, floating gently to earth upon a still day, could have been no more soundless.