How to Use life raft in a Sentence

life raft

noun
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  • Get the life raft over the side, get the dinghy over the side.
    — Douglas Robertson, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • The lead was 10 when Jackson threw the Pistons a life raft.
    — Vince Ellis, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2017
  • They were rescued from a life raft within a half-hour of the crash.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2020
  • For some, such as Ondine, the programs have been a kind of life raft.
    — Jennifer Richler, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2015
  • After the break-up, Moira finds June trying to flee in a life raft.
    — Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 19 May 2021
  • When the ship is sinking no one is going to throw you a life raft.
    — Fox News, 26 May 2018
  • Water began to fill the plane and the crew escaped in a life raft, the report said.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2020
  • For young Sav Rodgers, the cult classic became a life raft.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 June 2023
  • The boat had two 25-person life rafts and two aluminum work boats.
    — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Dancers thrashed atop the sailboat, but SZA escaped, taking to the sky in a life raft.
    — Jaelani Turner-Williams, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
  • But at the end of the day, doing so can put a slow leak in their financial life raft.
    — Marcy Klipfel, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Air crews located a life raft and swaths of debris from the vessel in the area.
    — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2022
  • The four people on board were adrift in a life raft and dinghy with a satellite phone and some supplies.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The captain, deckhand and first contractor swam to the life raft.
    — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Lynch said his housemates would jump into the mucky pond with life rafts to cool off on hot days.
    — Shannon Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • But its quest for a life raft has stakes for anyone who goes online.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The three other members of the crew were inside, and were able to deploy the vessel's life raft.
    — Travis Fedschun, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The boat crew arrived on the scene, took aboard the six people from the life raft, and transported them to Station Freeport.
    — Priscilla Aguirre, Chron, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Nathan Carman made it to a life raft and was rescued after eight days at sea.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 23 May 2018
  • After his boat sank, he was found adrift on a life raft about 115 miles off Martha’s Vineyard.
    — Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • Watch on The album is full of those ropes, life rafts the sisters wrote at first for themselves, and then once the record was out in the world, for their fans.
    — Madison Feller, ELLE, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Fifty feet away bobbed a life raft that Bush managed to inflate and flop onto.
    — Rachel Siegel, courant.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Maria Beasley invented the life raft, which was patented in 1882.
    — Renee Morad, NBC News, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The only large piece recovered so far is a part of a life raft, according to the navy.
    — Jon Emont, WSJ, 18 May 2021
  • The crew of the Mayan Queen lowered its life raft with three of its own crew, and followed the cries for help, pulling 15 men onboard, the captain said.
    — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times, 21 June 2023
  • Hope for his survival largely hinges on him being on a life raft.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
  • Two survivors found in a life raft were hoisted aboard a helicopter, the Coast Guard said.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Take it from a victim of the private student loan scam, the people drowning want a life raft, not a q-tip.
    — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Carl Lamarre: No matter how deep Kanye sinks, fans will continue to throw him a life raft.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The life raft they were found in is believed to have belonged to their larger vessel, according to the Sun.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024

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