Sentence examples for built a raft from inspiring English sources

Todd built a raft to sail under the bridge that his grandfather had built.

In 1947, the Norwegian adventurer and scientist built a raft of balsa wood and other materials and set sail from Peru to the islands of French Polynesia.

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

Noah's eldest son, Shem, has built a raft to take his wife and leave the ark, preferring to brave the ocean than to remain with his increasingly genocidal father.

Because of his most prominent accomplishment, which is having built a raft from materials thrown out in New York that he found floating in the harbor, and, with three other people, sailing it across the North Atlantic.

In 1988, they landed in Massachusetts, where Neutrino was given a barge the town had condemned; he and the family built a raft on the barge hull and called it Town Hall.

But he was the first man to build a raft out of garbage and sail it across the ocean.

Then there's The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea, a film starring and produced by Jessica Biel, about a widower who teams up with a wisecracking girl (Williams; who else?) in order to build a raft to cross the Atlantic.

"I felt I had more success with make-believe than reality; I can remember losing myself watching the newsreels of World War II as a kid -- a bunch of us had this plan to build a raft and cross the Atlantic and capture Hitler," he says, switching gears to belt a few lines from "Springtime for Hitler".

As Ms. Albright knows, a wise U.S. policy today would be focused on shaping post-Castro Cuba, so that we don't have another Haiti -- where, after the regime collapses, everyone builds a raft to get to Miami -- and so the Cuban people don't have another 40 years of repression.

"It's like you're floating in an ocean, and you want to build a raft.