Sentence examples for raft floating from inspiring English sources

From the rocky slopes, our bunkhouse looked like a raft floating upon a deep orange sea.

Mr. Askew had vaulted over a railing onto a raft floating in the sewage, he said, and paddled to the plant's backup pump.

Poon Lim, a Chinese sailor from a British ship sunk by a German U-boat in 1942, survived 133 days on a wooden raft floating in the South Atlantic before being rescued by Brazilian fishermen.

To do justice to the transformative power of this wondrous tale, Lee had to find a way to make a boy talking to an animal on a raft floating on the open sea cinematically compelling.

Throw in a manicured hand being eaten by crabs, a kid's raft floating to shore with bite marks in it and a young son dragged from the water in shock as his mother yells, "He's dead!" and you've got an unnerving tale of beach-town bliss gone horribly awry.

"Don't worry," the guide, Ryan Henkel of Wildwater Rafting, told his charges as he perched at the bow of a raft floating downstream in the first few minutes of the run, through swift but mirror-calm water, short of the thrills they had come for.

The refugees cut the motor and the raft floated to shore.

In this second of three episodes, a life raft floats into Ystad harbor with the corpses of two tortured Latvian men aboard.

It seemed that a raft floated to the nearest sawmill might be the best way, getting what they could, and, while Duquet stayed to guard the timber in case the thieves returned, Forgeron went to Portsmouth to hire raftsmen.

In 1865 the last pine spar raft floated down the creek, and on March 28 , 1871the General Assembly passed a law allowing splash dam construction and clearing of creeks to allow loose logs to float better.

But the rafts floating across the Mediterranean ruin the narrative.