How to Use buoyancy in a Sentence

buoyancy

noun
  • We hope that the economy will maintain its buoyancy.
  • The swimmer is supported by the water's buoyancy.
  • This bed also boasts top-notch buoyancy.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 8 Aug. 2025
  • If buoyancy is important to you, opt for a phone case or pouch that floats.
    — Olivia Lipski, Good Housekeeping, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The buoyancy of the water takes the extra weight off your joints.
    — Cory Martin, Verywell Health, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The change of circumstances gives the new songs a kind of buoyancy.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • There’s a looseness to her tone that gives this novel its buoyancy.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Even though there is a buoyancy force on humans, this is just too small compared to the weight.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Before, there had been this buoyancy, this kind of lightness.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
  • In many ways, the buoyancy of our group allowed for there to be a lot of mental health checks and breaks.
    — Sophia Scorziello, Variety, 16 July 2023
  • One reason to march is to not feel alone, is to feel the buoyancy and power in numbers.
    — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 20 Jan. 2017
  • Second, the buoyancy force is equal to the weight of the water displaced by the boat.
    — WIRED, 28 July 2023
  • The buoyancy of the water helps to keep this workout low impact.
    — Korin Miller, Outside Online, 17 Sep. 2024
  • The session is done while floating in a pool to leverage buoyancy.
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The ship then lost its buoyancy and went down in the northern part of the Atlantic ocean.
    — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Levi, once again, carries the movie, though with a shade less of that infectious buoyancy.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Ships may lose buoyancy, and there may also be a risk of ignition above the water and in the air.
    — Time, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Oil stalagmites emerge from the seafloor, pulled upward by their buoyancy.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The ebbing of house price growth comes after two months of surprising buoyancy in the markets.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 18 May 2017
  • Within each leaf are buoyancy chambers, which help relieve the weight of the doors in the water.
    — Jennifer Ott, The Seattle Times, 28 June 2017
  • To make ice cream so black seems to verge on sacrilege, summer buoyancy traded for a glimpse of the abyss.
    — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The float also has a full-roll pillow, adding extra buoyancy on the water.
    — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2022
  • The oil in a shark's liver helps regulate its buoyancy in the water.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2020
  • This meant the buoyancy tanks needed to shift aft, along with the battery banks and main electronics.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2022
  • This holds tanks largely filled with fresh water to maintain the platform’s buoyancy in the salty ocean.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The Mayor traces his newfound buoyancy to the end of lockdown.
    — Hunter Walker, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • The lighter hook allows the worm more buoyancy, and the thinner wire is also easier to set.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 29 July 2019
  • There will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair.
    — Lydia Price, People.com, 20 Jan. 2025
  • There will be those moments when the buoyancy of hope will be transformed into the fatigue of despair.
    — Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
  • To compensate for the extra weight, two inches were added to the sides of the hull to increase buoyancy.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2021

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