life raft in English

noun
1
a raft, typically inflatable, for use in an emergency at sea.
An oil slick surrounds the damaged carrier as an inflatable life raft deploys off her stern.

Use "life raft" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "life raft" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "life raft", or refer to the context using the word "life raft" in the English Dictionary.

1. I had trouble inflating my life raft.

2. Gwinn immediately dropped a life raft and radio transmitter.

3. I made for the life raft and hung on for dear life.

4. ... Again I tried inflating the life raft and this time was successful.

5. Education is the life raft he offers workers buffeted by the choppy currents of the global economy.

6. An overturned life raft was able to keep several of the Titanic passengers Afloat until help arrived

7. Thereafter, they spent 117 days afloat in a life raft until they were rescued by a Korean fishing vessel.

8. Men who hold tenaciously to a life raft may expect to he cast upon strange shores among strange companions.

9. A shipwreck victim afloat in a life raft can endure much longer if he knows that help is on the way.

10. 30 As soon as his life raft boomed into the sea, Delaney pulled the quick release tag and dropped from his harness.

11. Steven Callahan is the author of Adrift, Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea, which chronicles his life-raft drift across half the Atlantic in 1982, became an NYT Bestseller and has been translated into 15 languages.He also wrote Capsized for survivor Jim Nalepka who spent four months with four other men on an overturned, half-flooded boat