levitation

In a sentence

Six example sentences with levitation, each labelled with its topic.

• The film hides the wires so well that the levitation of the sleeping child looks entirely unexplained.

  Movies

• Victorian audiences paid well for seances promising levitation, and newspapers argued for years about those floating parlor tables.

  History

• The sculptor suspended the marble figure on a hidden rod so visitors experience levitation rather than a plinth.

  Art

• In the novel a girl practices levitation in her attic, rising an inch above the floorboards whenever she stops trying.

  Literature

• The levitation spell lets your character float over the lava field, and the timer runs out exactly halfway across.

  Gaming

• Stage magicians exploit how the eye assumes support, so a moment of apparent levitation feels impossible even after you know the trick.

  Psychology

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