Sentence examples for 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.

The next days take us deeper into steeper canyons and ever more challenging rapids (I am back in the large raft) followed by still nights when the only sounds are those of the river.

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.

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.

A large raft of shares the price of which appreciates by a dollar each will deliver as much extra wealth as a small quantity of shares that go up by $100.In spite of such confusion, Mr Hall argues that options undoubtedly have an incentive effect.

The farms grow porphyra, known as nori in Japanese cuisine, on large rafts in coastal waters.

The people complain there are insufficient boats, although the army plans to start operating large rafts which can transport more goods and even small jeeps.

OUR flotilla of three large rafts and an assortment of eight kayaks had successfully negotiated the four-foot drop of Tappan Falls, a difficult rapid on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho, when fire, rather than water, grabbed our attention.

Other structures that plankton respond to in the marine environment include aggregates of phytoplankton cells that form large rafts in tropical and temperate waters of the world (e.g., cells of Oscillatoria [Trichodesmium] erthraeus) and various types of seaweed (e.g., Sargassum, Phyllospora, Macrocystis) that detach from the seafloor and drift.

The IL-2 secretory response to PHA follows from lectin-mediated cross-linking of surface proteins into large rafts and requires activation of either NFAT or AP1 transcription factors in the nucleus, both of which are redox dependent [44, 45].