What is "buoyed"

Usage examples of "buoyed".

Instead, buoyed by talking with Cindy and looking forward to seeing Poppy, he cleaned up her place, had breakfast at the cafe, then went to the marina, switched the truck for his Porsche, and headed for Manchester.

His men were armed now, and having Mor as a hostage buoyed his confidence.

Unlike a real queen, she did not ride sidesaddle but instead galloped out to greet him as though she were a man, her fearlessness buoyed by the skilled swordsman at her side.

His step was light and energetic, buoyed by a sense of purpose he hadn’t known since his first day at the bank eight weeks ago.

There were planes of warm desire on which women could float, neither driven, nor quiescent, but simply buoyed on a sea of pleasure.

Now, buoyed by an inner confidence, she was convinced that only some urgent matter to do with Minnie's pearls would have kept him from her side.

More water gushed in, surged around the undamaged empty fuel tanks on the port side, and buoyed them up like soap bubbles.

Exactly on time a turquoise helicopter with NUMA lettering on the side came in low over the lake, hovered near the plane, and dropped a large box wrapped in heavy plastic and buoyed by airfilled floats.

Despite her careful words to Gabriel, she'd felt buoyed by their first real gain, the first scent of ultimate victory.

On the one hand, she felt almost hysterical with relief, buoyed to the point of frivolity over having the sword that had hung over the family's future for the past months all but effectively removed.

He did feel a little lightheaded, relieved that it was over, that Crowley was dead, never to darken their horizon again, and eager, buoyed with anticipation like some callow youth at the realization that she was his.

He didn't breathe freely until the first of the logs hissed softly and burst into flame, Buoyed by the thought that the heat of the fire would grow and begin to spread soon, he went to his overnight bag, dug out a sweater and knotted it around his head to protect his ears, pulled out a pair of socks and pushed his hands inside, then set off in the near-darkness to get the rest of his gear from the truck.

I am buoyed by breaths of once living things, exhaled as air, but water now.

I wondered why my body was not naturally buoyed above them, for I continued to remain erect and each step bore me downward as though on a natural staircase, though my movements were somewhat slowed.

Now faint and misty sheets drifted slowly between us, twisting, as if long strands of gauze were buoyed by heated air.