Sentence examples for a raft from a from inspiring English sources

Crews searched by sea and air and sought the public's help on Monday in finding a husband and wife and two children under 8 who sent distress calls to the Coast Guard on Sunday, saying that their sailboat was sinking far off the Central California coast and that they were fashioning a raft from a cooler and a life ring.

The first such mission involved a voyage on a raft from northern Peru to Mexico.

The tone has been cautious, every team in that bloated first round balancing on a raft from which only a few will fall, the trick being to lurk in the centre and just keep scuttling away from the very edges.

It never froze in place — though I once knew a kid, a wild funny Girl who built a raft from branches (Which promptly sank a few feet out From the elbow bend off Dayton's Bluff), Who made it seem easy to believe.

Hours later you will find them, clear-eyed and buzzing, having built a raft from driftwood and decided to set sail for Tahiti.

So what does it take to keep a raft from picking up too much speed and separating from the chute?

Wednesday night George disappeared a raft from the warehouse, we hopped in the van, and made the four-hour drive north, and made the run.

Instead, he argued that the animal reached the islands directly on a raft from mainland South America, probably from one of the continent's large rivers.

Dobies and his brother spent three weeks before the start of the trip constructing a 24-by-8-foot raft from a pontoon boat built in the 1970s (purchased for $4,000).

My friend Susan and I shared a raft with a friendly young couple from Australia.

The trip is partly inspired by the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition, in which a crew of six piloted a balsa raft from Peru to Polynesia in 101 days.