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"life raft" Definitions
  1. an open boat made of plastic or rubber that is filled with air, used for rescuing people from sinking ships or planes

183 Sentences With "life raft"

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It's a life raft with a slow leak at best.
Like most life raft stories, "Terra Firma" doesn't hold water.
She clings to Lindsay as a life raft, but she's drowning.
The book of Daniel was the life raft that I needed.
Thierry Dubois was plucked from a life raft by a helicopter.
But now Trump is drowning and he needs a life raft.
When I saw the life raft, I did not see my Mom.
When I saw the life raft I did not see my mom.
When I saw the life raft, I did not see my mom.
They complied with the law by leaving with an inflatable life raft.
"Our search area is prioritized on the life raft option," he said.
He is their orange life raft in the middle of a blue ocean.
The coins were among the possessions he brought with him on the life raft.
Local news outlets report that an empty life raft was spotted in the debris.
Notice when it's time to rely on yourself, and not the little life raft.
More than a week later, Mr. Carman was rescued from a life raft — alone.
They were rescued from a life raft by a Coast Guard helicopter, officials said.
A helicopter crew arrived on scene and hoisted two survivors from a life raft.
When the ship is sinking no one is going to throw you a life raft.
"Our search area is prioritized on the life raft option," Guernsey Police said on Twitter.
But she still fears that without the life raft of a meeting, people could relapse.
Some sailors grabbed on to floating nets, or the extremely fortunate got into a life raft.
The Defence Force believed there could be a life raft with more surviving passengers, he added.
Bullimore diving down and through the companionway hatch to try to cut away his life raft.
I quickly got onto the main deck, where I saw a friend unleashing a life raft.
If things really go bad, there is an emergency grab bag, flares and a life raft.
"Before Bennett abandoned the catamaran and boarded the life raft, Bennett loaded various items from the vessel onto the life raft, including a suitcase, two duffle bags, a backpack, water, unexpended parachute flares, a radio transmitter, buoys, food, and silver coins," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Kem's site has served as a life raft for content from other Daria sites that went dark.
Yet this post-Brexit life raft does not mean that Trump's victory is good news for Britain.
He was reportedly rescued later that Monday morning after leaving the sinking boat in a life raft.
It wasn't the life raft they needed, but it wasn't bad, considering the team's win-now aspirations.
"You meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace," Hewitt said, offering a life raft.
These moves could prove useful to rank-and-file Republicans seeking a life raft in Trumpian seas.
Hope is clinging to the life raft and kicking, even when there is no sight of land.
And in this moment, it's the life raft saving you from being your school's version of Josie Grossie.
The crew found Carman floating on a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean and rescued him on Sept.
And the income we did have coming in was like random flotsam, not the life raft we needed.
Despite bitcoin's troubles, Colas, who owns a quarter of a bitcoin, doesn't think it needs a life raft.
Witmer seems to intend these tracks, even when they're about the heavy stuff, as something of a life raft.
Macdonald abandoned the ship, boarded the vessels&apos life raft and contacted officials in the United Kingdom by satellite phone.
"I was mourning a life raft that had kept me, silly as it was, bobbing above the fray," she writes.
The lucky 14 of us sunk into a deep relief (sleep) like we'd gotten a life raft on the Titanic.
Even setting aside "Grindin'," something like "When the Last Time" would have been a welcome life raft on Blueprint 2.
Global Soccer LONDON — Real Madrid needs to win the Champions League the way a capsized crew needs a life raft.
It was as if Nicole were floating away on a life raft, while Shannon stayed behind on a sinking ship.
Life insurance felt more like a life raft for us — something to offset lost income should one of us die.
Over the weekend, Carman was found drifting on a life raft about 100 nautical miles from Martha's Vineyard by a freighter.
From there, they boarded a life raft to Greece, where they ended up in a camp on the island of Samos.
He did not call for help until he was on the life raft and did not look for his missing wife.
Carman was found a week later off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, drifting on a life raft in good condition.
Over the weekend, Carman was found drifting on a life raft by a freighter about 100 nautical miles from Martha's Vineyard.
Hillenbrand begins with our hero, his plane having gone down in the Pacific, floating on a life raft encircled by sharks.
It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane's bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard.
But by and large, HOWSLA doesn't do that, instead mostly clinging to the dancefloor life raft of a consistent kick drum.
Even today, we cling to our independent drugstores as to a life-raft in a grim alien sea of chain stores.
Taylor Cintron, 19, an economics major at UConn, was put in charge of the next task, boarding an inflated life raft.
It was supposed to be an impenetrable, modern-day Noah's ark for plants, a life raft against climate change and catastrophe.
That suggests a basic income may not be the life raft for working class adults that its proponents suggest it would be.
If they are wearing the right dry suits or they got into a life raft, then the probability is not too bad.
In his awkward apology video released on Friday night, Trump made clear that Bill Clinton sex scandals were now his life raft.
Two beach balls with "Dwayne Johnson" and "Zac Efron" emblazoned on them flank a life raft with "Baywatch" engraved down the center.
Rescue folks came and eventually someone inflated a life raft that had been on the plane and we began climbing into it.
The passengers rescued from the dinghy said others had escaped the sinking in a life raft after the ferry split in two.
Bennett, 41, was rescued from a life raft about 30 miles west of Cay Sal, Bahamas, an island near Cuba's northern shore.
" One of the filings reads: "The stolen silver coins were inside the Defendant's life raft when he was rescued, while Hellmann was not.
And the Kurds should be ready to be sold out again -- as this life raft demands they put their possessions on board first.
"You can either be like, that is bizarre, or I find it grounding and an important life raft of what matters," she said.
The Kremlin and its allies, struggling to right an economy waterlogged by two years of recession, are seeking a life raft, analysts said.
So for families that feel as if they are sinking amid academic struggles and behavioral meltdowns, they may seem like a life raft.
Off in the distance, they occasionally caught a glimpse of what appeared to be the lights of the Scandies Rose's other life raft.
After escaping and parachuting into the ocean, he found a life raft and paddled against the tide taking him toward Japanese-occupied territory.
Pi ends up on a life raft in the middle of the ocean, along with a hyena, an orangutan, and a Bengal tiger.
Ambient music—slow, drifting compositions, often for electronics but really for any instrument that allows long-sustained notes—has become a spiritual life raft.
As Chase Madar pointed out on Twitter, he is using America's most dangerous cities as a kind of "life raft" for a demagogic argument.
Fitting in confers a coveted safety, a life raft to which she clings, knowing that those who are different stand out like capsizing ships.
The woman is 40, dresses like a prostitute and has enough fillers in her face to get a second career as a life raft.
A few years later, he was alone in the Pacific on a life raft, praying that his rescuers would find him before the enemy did.
The group of girlfriends I finally arrived at were like a life raft I didn't know I was looking for before I got on it.
The couple (William, 250, and Simone, 22010) grabbed a portable salt-water purifier and fishing rods before abandoning their boat for a rubber life raft.
On his return trip, he ran into a storm and was forced to abandon his boat and take to a six-foot rubber life raft.
On September 25, Nathan Carman was found adrift in the life raft by a Chinese freighter about 100 nautical miles south of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
It seems doubtful that the speaker, flush with victory, will extend a life raft to the President, who faces another deadline three weeks from now.
These proposals have been roundly criticized for their seeming elitism, working on a life raft for the few while most people are left to die.
While criticizing the president can be a political death sentence for many Republicans, it is more of a life raft for governors in these states.
" He added that Democrats "need an emotional life raft right now and are looking for leaders who can present a different picture of the future.
The group that Detloff posts his videos in and helps moderate, Pagans of the Path, is a sort of life raft for the eclectic Wiccan set.
The third icon from the right in the upper right hand corner is a two-colored circle; aptly, it appears to look like a life raft.
Following that spate of stories, you might think Trump or his surrogates would throw Sessions a life raft in the form of a vote of confidence.
Carman was found drifting on a life raft a week later – but his mother's whereabouts remain unknown, and authorities believe she could not still be alive.
Bush, after desperately paddling his life raft away from the island and Japanese boats sent out to capture him, was miraculously rescued by a U.S. submarine.
He parachuted out of his burning plane, inflated a life raft, paddled with his arms until he was delirious and was shocked when he was rescued.
He tossed several items in his life raft, including a suitcase, two duffel bags, water, food and silver coins, and then abandoned the catamaran, prosecutors said.
The effort comes at a time when Biden is banking on South Carolina to be his life raft in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
As Joe and I were running toward the lifeboats, we saw the officer-in-charge sitting in a life raft on the deck with his suitcase.
Crews in an MH-60 helicopter and an HC-130 airplane assisted in the rescue of the two crew members who were in a life raft.
They gathered between coils of mooring rope and a life raft at the port-side rails to try to siphon enough signal to receive text messages.
Bennett is in custody after pleading guilty earlier this year to transporting $36,000 in stolen coins, which police recovered both from the life raft and Hellmann's residence.
If a shark is detected, the drones will alert swimmers through a megaphone, and could also deploy a life raft and emergency beacon for people in danger.
Boston (CNN)He was rescued alone in a life raft off the New England coast, a week after heading out on a fishing trip with his mother.
The music video, released on this, the 44th day of One Direction's first extended break in five years, is clearly meant as a life raft for fans.
A passing freighter found the younger Carman alive in a life raft on Saturday, within the search area Petty Officer Nicole Groll outlined to reporters on Monday.
A second was overcome by the water and cold, and pulled his own emergency personal life raft, becoming, in effect, an additional person in need of rescue.
During the two-day course, instructors used scenarios like capsizing a life raft in the dark and requiring the sailor to overturn it and get back in.
Smart told the Press Herald the crew was investigating reports of a deflated life raft in the area, which was determined to be old and of "no significance."
Their emotions were stretched to the limit after experts determined that flares and a life raft discovered in the search area did not come from the missing submarine.
" An unnamed Republican went so far as to tell Politico on Tuesday that Tillerson's need for Mattis's backing was like "a drowning man clinging to a life raft.
This could be helpful to create objects meant to skip over a water to a target, like bombs, or to keep water skiers and life raft occupants afloat.
Rescuers have found a burning debris field in the water and at least one empty life raft, but thus far there's no sign of any survivors, officials said.
Trump's racist tweets, in addition to being awful in their own right, managed to throw a life raft to Dems who can now unify around condemning his comments.
Aboard the life raft, he used a satellite phone and activated a small battery-powered transmitting device to call for help and report his wife missing, prosecutors said.
At times, the fight between these two camps has taken on the bitterness and intensity (not to mention futility) of a knife fight in a rubber life raft.
The winner is the first to sink their opponent's entire fleet, or the first player to get a special red ball to land in their opponent's tiny life raft.
Earlier, searchers spotted a fire and debris field, including an empty life raft, about 2½ miles north of Haleiwa Beach, according to Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Sara Mooers.
Searchers spotted a fire and debris field, including an empty life raft, about 2½ miles north of Haleiwa Beach and later floating pieces of debris consistent with military aircraft.
Once they've spotted a shark, the drones can do all sorts of things: speak to endangered swimmers with a megaphone, drop a life raft, or communicate with rescue officials.
"This race is not to be underestimated," said Will Oxley of Australia, a navigator who has won the race twice but also ended up in a life raft once.
Joyous and like somebody should have a parade in my honor, or quiet and clingy with my baby and my husband, because they were my life raft through it all.
When water sign Scorpio takes the wheel for a month on the 22nd, get ready to plunge into the deep...or hop on the life raft and paddle furiously away.
The complaint alleges Bennett was found in his life raft with rolls of gold and silver coins that had been reported stolen from a boat in St. Maarten in 2016.
I heard tell of a closing door, as labels became squeezed out of previous life-raft licensing money, and the Rolling Stones's of the world folded in on their navels.
In a cheeky homage to the "burning platform" memo, Pienimäki and his fellow defectors decided to name their company Jolla, a Finnish word connoting a small boat or life raft.
Searchers spotted a fire and debris field, including an empty life raft, about 2½ miles north of Haleiwa Beach and later found floating pieces of debris consistent with military aircraft.
Knowing that Allen helped revive SETI with Project Phoenix a few years earlier, Tarter reached out to him and asked if he could summon a monetary life raft once again.
A fleeting moment of healing -- a royal wedding for an American actress, a long-awaited Caps hockey triumph in a dysfunctional capital, a racehorse achieving greatness -- becomes a life raft.
For weed-curious amateurs, the book serves as a life raft for the next time you're not sure what to do when a joint makes its way around a party.
While Nasir looks to his lawyer to put the pieces of his life back together, Stone's ulterior motives suggest that he might not be the life raft the young suspect expects.
Two Filipino crew members have been rescued floating in a life raft on Saturday, but other lifeboats and rafts found in the area were empty, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
The bed figured in her work; it was both a prison and a life raft — in paintings, she depicted herself suffering in it, as well as floating into the clouds, asleep.
If you ask researchers, physicians, and drug abuse specialists whether legalizing weed could be our life raft, their responses are much more nuanced and thoughtful than those from the administration (surprise, surprise).
In a message posted in both English and Spanish to the 59-year-old Grammy winner's Instagram page, Estefan shared a photo of a family of Cuban refugees on a life raft.
Clutching the microphone like a life raft, Kesha announces she'll indulge the crowd with a few fan requests which turn out to be "Boots & Boys" and "Cannibal," replete with all-band choreography.
However, one of the life rafts was punctured by the wreckage rendering it unusable, and the floor of the second life raft failed, leaving only the inflated tubes for people to hang onto.
Seven people that were rescued from a drifting dinghy on the weekend said the ferry broke up soon after setting out and that they had seen other passengers scramble aboard a life raft.
There's something so timely and full of truth and I remember for me that at that age, it felt like a life raft at a time when you're lost and searching and unsure.
On top of the craft they installed solar panels to keep all those gadgets charged, and Bertish also kept an emergency kit—complete with a life raft and flares—nearby just in case.
Rating: If Thibs showed up in his vacation florals, dragging along a pouting Andrew Wiggins while Taj Gibson floated up on his life raft from last week, we'd have ourselves a Mamma Mia!
Searchers spotted a fire and debris field, including an empty life raft, about two and a half miles north of Haleiwa Beach and later found floating pieces of debris consistent with military aircraft.
Carson could have the inside track in Michigan after growing up in Detroit, while Paul, if his campaign is still alive, could find a small life raft in his home state of Kentucky.
Peter Lee (Richard Madden, Robb Stark on "Game of Thrones"), a clergyman on a dying Earth, is recruited to minister on a distant planet intended to become a life raft for the wealthy.
The boat sank, and Nathan was picked up about a week later in a life raft more than 753 miles off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, as the Boston Globe reported at the time.
He did not call for help until he was safely on the life raft — about 45 minutes after he first woke up — and did not look for or call out for his missing wife.
When your cursor remains on a word and you use the life raft, the word or letter will turn blue if it's right, or red with a black slash through it if it's wrong.
David played a wealthy man claiming that he should get a spot on a life raft, and Sanders comes out to say: "I am so sick of the one percent getting this preferential treatment!"
Dr Paul Scully-Power, a co-founder of the Little Ripper Group, said a life raft and emergency beacon can be dropped from the drone and the company is developing an electronic shark repellent.
Titled Law of the Journey, and sitting inside the large Turbine Hall on the island, the work resembles a colossal black rubber life raft, bulging with hundreds of anonymous human figures wearing life jackets.
This is the love she was promised, and she will cling to it like the life raft that it so clearly is, no matter what her father tries to do to break them apart.
The Coast Guard said the life raft contained a number of Bennett's items, including a suitcase, two backpacks and nine plastic tubes, "containing what were determined to be silver coins," according to the affidavit.
And fire ants, an imported South American pest that nevertheless made the Southeast its home, have their own unique response to rain, banding together to form a sort of swarming life raft to weather storms.
Bennett reported his wife missing in a distress call to the Coast Guard, who rescued him from a life raft about 30 miles west of Cay Sal, Bahamas, not far from Cuba in May 2017.
Mr. Morton told Mr. Schorzman that after deploying the aircraft's parachute system and landing in the Pacific Ocean, he used the onboard life raft to wait for rescue from a nearby Holland America cruise ship.
U.S, Australian and New Zealand aircraft have for several days been scouring the central Pacific Ocean for a life raft believed to be carrying survivors from a 17-metre (56-foot) catamaran reported missing on Jan.
Seeing the movie again after the election, in the midst of its daily, disheartening fallout, I felt a renewed sense of hope — that increasingly slippery life raft Obama first held out to galvanized voters in 2008.
The more you listen to psychologists and academics explain nostalgia, the more it seems like the best possible life raft for friends and family who can't stop posting anti-Trump memes on their respective Facebook pages.
The president is throwing Congress a life raft with a package of rescissions that will hopefully restore a small amount of fiscal sanity to a Congress that has, when it comes to spending, lost its mind.
This one, and why I wanted to include it even though it's not a full-length, that was the life raft that carried us from the first chapter of the band to the current chapter of the band.
The bitterness among many politicians is now palpable after Democratic leaders rejected Trump's offer over the MLK holiday weekend to throw a temporary, three-year life raft to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (or DACA) recipients into the mix.
Bennett was initially scheduled to stand trial in December for a second-degree murder charge after pleading guilty earlier in the year to transporting $36,000 in stolen coins, which police recovered both from the life raft and Hellman's residence.
As the effort to criminally pursue Mr. Salvini comes to a critical juncture, just weeks after a defeat in an important regional election thwarted his attempted return to power, he has seized upon it as a political life raft.
Bennett was initially scheduled to stand trial late last year for the second-degree murder charge after pleading guilty earlier in the year to transporting $36,000 in stolen coins, which police recovered both from the life raft and Hellman's residence.
The criminal complaint against Bennett, who was rescued from a life raft by the Coast Guard, alleges he told investigators he was asleep below the deck of their boat when he heard the vessel hit something soon before his wife's disappearance.
The unit can produce 400 milliliters per day, according to Vela, who said K-107 has plans for an international product aimed to be a life raft for all manner of natural disaster, be it a flood, fire, hurricane, or earthquake.
"When you've nothing left to pledge as collateral and banks no longer wish to lend any money to you, your credit cards are your life raft," Mei, a financial consultant from Shenzhen Shandao Management Consulting, told a 100-strong audience.
Seven aircraft from New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. coastguard have been combing around 92,000 square km (35,500 square miles) of ocean for the missing life raft, which was designed to hold about 25 people but capable of squeezing on more.
I held onto the information like a life raft, and told myself I would feel denial, anger, bargaining and then eventually acceptance, and once I got to the end of the ladder, I would finally be able to breathe again.
Backpage was an imperfect solution to the problems facing the sex work industry, but for many workers, it was a life raft—being able to vet clients and post one's own ads freed them from relying on abusive agents and clients.
The federal complaint, obtained by PEOPLE, alleges Bennett, who was rescued from a life raft by the Coast Guard, told investigators he was asleep below the deck of their boat when he heard the vessel hit something soon before his wife's disappearance.
Far from the marble floors and high ceilings of the Tennessee state house, back in the green hills of Appalachia, medical professionals and patients alike are asking the same question: Could marijuana be a life raft out of this sea of painkillers?
BOSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard will not reopen a search for a 54-year-old woman whose fishing boat sank last week, despite the discovery of her son alive on a life raft a week after the incident, officials said on Monday.
The other possibilities were less optimistic: that "they landed on water and made it into the life raft we know was on board," or that "the aircraft broke up on contact with the water, leaving them in the sea," Captain Barker said.
A freighter found 22-year-old Nathan Carman drifting on a life raft about 100 nautical miles from Martha's Vineyard on Sunday, about two days after the Coast Guard suspended its search for Nathan and his mother, Linda Carman, 54, the Associated Press reports.
The suffering of these children, the most vulnerable among us, is a catastrophe; it's hard for many of them to dream of thriving from the squalor of a refugee camp in Jordan, or on a life raft on the Mediterranean somewhere between Libya and Italy.
But just as important for aspiring professionals — and, frankly, anyone with a heartbeat and zest for adventure — is the opportunity to take part in the creation of new music within splashing distance of its source, and without the life raft of recordings to cling to.
LONDON (Reuters) - Police searching the English Channel for missing Cardiff City soccer star Emiliano Sala are prioritizing their efforts on the possibility that the plane landed on water and he made it onto a life raft that was on board, British police said on Wednesday.
Aspiring writer Gus (Rust) and adrift radio producer Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) repeatedly and hesitantly weave into and out of each other's lives, as if trying to determine whether they're looking at a life raft or an anchor that'll drag them into the depths of their worst selves.
MELBOURNE, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A P&O cruise ship has rescued three men from a life raft in the Pacific Ocean near the French protectorate of New Caledonia after it received a rescue request from marine authorities in the capital Noumea, the company said on Thursday.
She had just broken up with her partner of two years, someone who knew her with sufficient thoroughness that his demolition of her character in their final arguments could not fail to undermine her opinion of herself; she clung to the photojournalist's attention as if it were a life raft.
"What it means to confront a long-held belief (one clung to like a life raft in the middle of the ocean) is to challenge your own perceptions and allow the pentimento painting that is hidden beneath the surface to emerge and be seen in the light of a new day."
Instagram has served as a life raft for Facebook's brand this year amidst an onslaught of scandals including fake news, election interference, social media addiction, and most recently, a security breach that gave hackers the access tokens for 50 million users that could have let them take over their accounts.
Millions of people, many of them who might not have realized they needed this life-raft of optimism in the form of a doofy NBC sitcom about an Arizona trash bag and her friends and a demon, now know more about moral philosophy and ethics than we probably ever would have in our life.
In the background at the 2:49 mark, you can see one of the older female contestants shoving mangos into her bra, which seems like a really good idea if you're going to be on national TV. And then there's 72-year-old Joe Del Campo, who wisely positions himself on the life raft, organizing and piling up supplies.
Edge of Seventeen director and writer Kelly Fremon Craig, who will helm and adapt Blume's novel, told Deadline in a statement: "There's something so timely and full of truth and I remember for me that at that age, it felt like a life raft at a time when you're lost and searching and unsure," she told the outlet.
In this way, the Kims turn the Parks into a financial life raft, and their scheme seems perfectly sound until they discover an even lower-class leech living among them: the former housekeeper's husband, who, hunted by loan sharks, has been stashed away by his wife in a subbasement that even the Parks aren't aware exists.
And for those in the GOP establishment who cling to their quaint anti-Trump slogans like a life raft, this abject corruption is what you are accepting all because you can't get around the Republican nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's rough edges.

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