Sentence examples for a large raft from inspiring English sources

The ironclad Weehawken led the attack, encumbered by a large raft attached to her bow fitted with grappling hooks to snag the devices.

I am going to send you away of my own free will; so go, cut some beams of wood, and make yourself a large raft with an upper deck that it may carry you safely over the sea.

Born in 1933 in Stalingrad (now Volgograd), he and his mother and infant brother were evacuated on a large raft across the Volga River during the Battle of Stalingrad.

When an observer finds a large raft of birds, he blocks off part of the raft with glasses, make an estimate of the number of birds, & counts the blocks.

A large raft slid from the brush on the Mexican side and into river, with one person paddling in the front and another in the back, and Fred tried to count the number of bodies jammed between.

But the proposed S.E.C. rules, which are now open for public comment and scheduled to be completed in the spring, also exclude a large raft of people from receiving potential awards.

I recall a veteran producer talking a few years ago about the explosion in new theatre-makers being like a great sea on which there is large raft: those who have managed to make it to the raft look back only to see wave after wave of people swimming towards them, all desperate to get on board.

against a large timber raft that has been already moored.

Because the RB is founded on a large circular raft, it is possible to consider the effect of the seismic wave incoherency to filter out the high-frequency content, mainly above 10 Hz, using the incoherency transfer function (ITF) method.

For wine-coolers we have the loose sand, in which our chairs keep sinking as we sit; radiation soon cools the surface, we bury the wine-bottles shoulder deep, and little time is needed to give us a cool and refreshing draught.against a large timber raft that has been already moored.

Then the neighborhood kids brought out a large inflatable raft.