Sentence examples for makeshift raft from inspiring English sources

He and a friend, David Bell, and Bell's two small daughters had just escaped from the Lower Nine by lashing three refrigerators into a makeshift raft.

A group of students recently rode a makeshift raft held afloat only with packets of Korean-branded crisps, in protest at their meagre contents.

Now, nearing the shore, we grasp ropes once we can stand and begin to heave ashore a makeshift raft laden with artworks.

For decades, questions have persisted: Did the men successfully make it north toward Angel Island, either in their makeshift raft or by swimming?

Another friend left on a makeshift raft, with other people, and was eventually retrieved at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard.

A man being punished for some unnamed transgression is tied to a makeshift raft, weighted at the feet so that only his face is clear of the sea.

A hodgepodge of fishing skiffs, makeshift rafts, and waterskiing boats were approaching with more.

At that time thousands of Cubans on makeshift rafts were heading for Florida.

The village on the river Iagnobe is well placed for checking the timber that is taken downstream on makeshift rafts.

Many Cubans Rubio's age periodically try to make the perilous journey to America aboard makeshift rafts.

As the manager of 20 pontoons – makeshift rafts assembled from wood, thatch, plastic barrels and suction hoses – he is nervous.