Sentence examples for heavy raft from inspiring English sources

This severely overloaded the craft and within minutes a large wave struck the heavy raft and capsized it, drowning all aboard.

Nikita Trevedi, 27, a pharmacist, watched dreamily as boys poled a raft heavy with idols out to the open sea and slid them below the surface of the water.

In spite of receiving 26 heavy hits, her armoured raft remained untouched and she remained both afloat and operational at the end of action.

I reached back into the small compartment behind the seats and fumbled with the life raft, a heavy, non-self inflating hunk of rubber designed for white water rivers, and wondered how we were going to blow this thing up after we hit.

Here, we performed a detailed transmission electron microscopy study on dislocation loop rafts in heavy ion irradiated tungsten.

Boxing Day's football schedule has been hit by the weather as heavy rain from Storm Eva in the north of England and in Scotland caused a raft of postponements.

As expected, AE12-1Y re-localized Neogenin from rafts to the heavy membrane fractions, indicating that this antibody broke Neogenin association with lipid rafts.

The river was running ragged with heavy glacial melt and our rafts were no match for the white water.

The other 28 persons on board the aircraft were lost when their rafts sank in heavy seas.

JESS DROMGOLD of Hartshorne, Oklahoma, has a heavy moustache, a crushing handshake, and a raft of advice.

It came out to the table thick and dark, a kind of tomato jam knit together with heavy shreds of meat, riding a polenta raft: poultry that looked like pork and tasted of fish, a combination to reel the mind.