"Cars were literally floating in the parking lot, and people were running from the building and were saying victims were trapped inside," said Mr. McKay.

In the event, the participants literally float on the Kerava River or on the Vantaa River from Vantaa to a downstream riverside beach in Helsinki.

A favorite with magicians, this feat consisted in making an illuminated bulb literally float in midair, clear across the stage, even when the performer remained at the other side.

The dome itself was supported by this high pressure, so that the enclosure surrounding the fifty-four-thousand-seat arena was literally floating on air.

In actuality, it would be impossible for an entire planet to literally float on water.

Glancing toward it, he saw that the arm was literally floating upward.

We stayed at the axis, drifting with the air currents, literally floating on air.

After all, it's literally floating on the mantle, not actually attached to the core, so it doesn't have to spin at exactly the same rate.

Continents literally float above the action.

It seemed that the artist had wanted to make use of every bit of space available on the stone, and consequently the figures literally floated, one above the other.