buoyant

Preposition: at

• moment: The domestic market appears buoyant at the moment, also growing 8 per cent over the year.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• keep: To keep sales buoyant during flat periods in my shop I had a regular market slot ( God love Bromley North Market!
• make: The engine room was pumped out to make the craft buoyant, ready for the final trip in to the Humber.

Modifies a noun

• plume: Figure 23: Sketch of a buoyant plume rising in the absence of a background wind.
• ascent: At the time of the buoyant ascent the computer had ' cleared ' .
• mood: Get a crew cut Category: Today's thought I left my house today in buoyant mood.
• jet: There are many similar cases of polluted buoyant jets in the atmosphere, where the same mixing processes occur.
• economy: The point is to maintain the buoyant economy, referred to earlier, which will provide jobs.
• lift: The second dive involved a ' slightly fast buoyant lift ' .

Modifying Another Word

• neutrally: Nick Bennet's surveying tool lives in a long, neutrally buoyant tube held at arms length from the diver.
• negatively: You do need negatively buoyant cylinders to combat the positive buoyancy of all your insulation.
• positively: My pack feels like air, or perhaps positively buoyant.
• relatively: Domestic demand maintained relatively buoyant with UK high street sales growing at 5.6 % .
• extremely: Notwithstanding the recent wins, our pipeline of new sales prospects remains extremely buoyant.
• fairly: Good news larger businesses seem fairly buoyant with some growth in trade.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Activity remained buoyant with a 6.9 % increase in traffic on 5.6 % higher capacity.
• become: Air only - term used to describe a life jacket that only becomes buoyant upon filling with gas.
• feel: By this time we'd all had some whiz and were once again feeling buoyant.
• keep: This fish does not have a swim bladder, the device used by most bony fish to keep buoyant.
• seem: Good news larger businesses seem fairly buoyant with some growth in trade.