keep afloat in English

emain above water, not sink

Use "keep afloat" in a sentence

1. Many small businesses are struggling to stay/keep afloat.

2. 2 a : to keep afloat a raft Buoyed by empty oil drums

3. The vessels are so loaded down that they barely keep afloat (2).

4. He is struggling to keep afloat after a series of emotional and health problems.

5. The world banking system was in deep trouble and yet we managed to keep afloat.

6. How was he going to keep afloat—and do so with his precious young daughter on his back?

7. And because dense bones tend to sink, black swimmers need to work much harder and expend more energy to keep afloat.

8. The 20-year-old Bend, Oregon, location that became the only Blockbuster left on the planet–has managed to keep afloat during the …

9. buoy someone up encourage, support, boost, cheer, sustain, hearten, cheer up, keep afloat, gee up They are Buoyed up by a sense of hope

10. 25 To be plunged in this state, at the age of into the midst of the social sea of England would have justified considerable misgiving as to my being able to keep afloat.

11. ‘The vessel is presently still Afloat but very low in the water, there is a pump on board and we will have to wait and see if it can be towed back to the shore.’ ‘She recalled flailing in the water, desperately trying to keep Afloat and barely aware of the screams and chaos …

12. ‘The vessel is presently still Afloat but very low in the water, there is a pump on board and we will have to wait and see if it can be towed back to the shore.’ ‘She recalled flailing in the water, desperately trying to keep Afloat and barely aware of the screams and chaos …