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  • adverb whilst weightless; without weight

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Examples

  • I began to picture this man as a child, chin in hands, stretched out in footed pyjamas beneath the bluish glow of a black and white TV, watching as the first astronaut bounded weightlessly onto the moon.

    Diagnosis: American Sally Houtman 2011

  • While some people become claustrophobic in the tank, many relish the opportunity to block the constant flow of external stimuli that bombards them and to enjoy their own altered state, floating as weightlessly as an astronaut in space.

    Review of What Becomes by A.L. Kennedy 2010

  • She drifted weightlessly on her back as the blinding sun ordered the clouds away.

    Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010

  • As she sprang weightlessly forward, kissed the water with her entire body, passed through its upper skin, paraphrasing the motion of the sinking star, she knew only that she was about to die.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • As she sprang weightlessly forward, kissed the water with her entire body, passed through its upper skin, paraphrasing the motion of the sinking star, she knew only that she was about to die.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • As she sprang weightlessly forward, kissed the water with her entire body, passed through its upper skin, paraphrasing the motion of the sinking star, she knew only that she was about to die.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  •   BAP! — sparks and smoke, and before I knew it, I was transported weightlessly down a long corridor towards a soft white light into a room just like the one my high school football coaches used to sit in to watch film of upcoming teams on our schedule.

    In the Film Room With the Big Guy Upstairs 2010

  • In the living room, Jacques LaRoche sailed weightlessly through the front of the console television.

    Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

  • "The payload will fall weightlessly in an antigravity beam."

    Nell Shea 2010

  • She drifted weightlessly on her back as the blinding sun ordered the clouds away.

    Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010

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