Sentence examples for raft by from inspiring English sources

Holding a life belt secured to the raft by a long line, he reached the struggling crew member just as the raft threatened to leave him behind forever.

The discovery of the second raft by the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Bayleaf killed the last vestige of hope that any of the men might be found alive.

There were challenges: extracting the raft from overhanging branches using a folding saw, trying to stop a two-tonne raft by wrapping a rope around a tree on shore and holding tight.

There's also Rallyball (glorified dodgeball), Reflex Ridge (an exhausting whole-body obstacle course), Space Pop (pop bubbles in zero gravity) and River Rush (control a white-water raft by lunging and jumping).

After breaking from his mentally unstable brother Chuck Michael McKeann), who never wanted Jimmy to succeed, he's given up the lawyering life and is pulling petty cons while floating in a lazy river at a New Mexico resort, with his drink in his floatation device, his snacks on a raft by his side, and his cellphone floating in a plastic bag.

After deleting "The Baron of Orschel-Hagen," she decided to give up fiction altogether and pursue journalism, in German, on behalf of birds — a plan that held up until, as she put it, "I was hailed on my life raft by the passing containership Franzen".

But others join illegal migrants in trying to reach host countries by raft or by jumping over a fence.

Rendered obsolete by the larger and more powerful B-29 Superfortress, the B-17 served on after the war in small numbers as a search-and-rescue aircraft modified to drop life rafts by parachute.

This unique flexibility of n-3 PUFA acyl chains impacts the organization of inner and outer leaflet lipid rafts by disrupting acyl chain packing and molecular order within rafts.

In October, 17 passengers and two crew were rescued from life rafts by a passing vessel after the helicopter, which was carrying an oil crew from Aberdeen to a rig 86 miles north-west of Shetland, was forced to ditch.

Attempts to visualize lipid rafts by confocal microscopy without cross-linking have consistently remained unsuccessful (for reviews, see [13], [14]).