1. afloat - Adjective
2. afloat - Adverb
3. afloat - Preposition
5. afloat - Adjective Satellite
Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.
Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.
Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAction is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. Eric Hoffer
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do. Jack White
Dhirubhai will go one day. But Reliance's employees and shareholders will keep it afloat. Reliance is now a concept in which the Ambanis have become irrelevant. Dhirubhai Ambani
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. Anna Quindlen
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. Audre Lorde
But now, severed from the companion of my infancy, the partaker of all my thoughts, my cares, and my wishes, I was like one set afloat upon a stormy sea, hanging his safety upon a plank; night was closing upon him, and an unexpected surge had torn him from his hold and overwhelmed him forever. Charles Brockden Brown