How to Use life raft in a Sentence

life raft

noun
  • Get the life raft over the side, get the dinghy over the side.
    — Douglas Robertson, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • When the ship is sinking no one is going to throw you a life raft.
    — Fox News, 26 May 2018
  • But its quest for a life raft has stakes for anyone who goes online.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 22 Oct. 2020
  • They were rescued from a life raft within a half-hour of the crash.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The playoffs offer a life raft.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Hope for his survival largely hinges on him being on a life raft.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
  • 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
  • Rescuers found an oil sheen, an empty life raft and some debris.
    — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022
  • For some, such as Ondine, the programs have been a kind of life raft.
    — Jennifer Richler, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2015
  • The boat had two 25-person life rafts and two aluminum work boats.
    — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 9 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Air crews located a life raft and swaths of debris from the vessel in the area.
    — oregonlive, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Nathan Carman made it to a life raft and was rescued after eight days at sea.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 23 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
  • All of these were rescued uninjured from a life raft, the report added.
    — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Fifty feet away bobbed a life raft that Bush managed to inflate and flop onto.
    — Rachel Siegel, courant.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • After the break-up, Moira finds June trying to flee in a life raft.
    — Amanda Ostuni, EW.com, 19 May 2021
  • But all of these people were in a life raft or small boat, most in warm or tropical waters.
    — Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Self-care, for me, has always been a life raft of sorts during turbulent times.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The captain, deckhand and first contractor swam to the life raft.
    — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • 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 fishermen were able to approach the life raft and rescue the survivors.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 23 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • And Zaslav is putting the old-fashioned cable channels on their own life raft to sink or swim on their own.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 9 June 2025
  • And what Douglas hasn’t told you, that life raft was already old and was already starting to fall apart.
    — Kathleen Rellihan, Outside, 28 Dec. 2025
  • One described feeling as if she were stranded in the middle of the ocean, pregnant and without a life raft.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • On Apollo 13, the lunar lander was indeed used as a life raft.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 May 2018
  • Two survivors found in a life raft were hoisted aboard a helicopter, the Coast Guard said.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2020

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