Sentence examples for raft waiting from inspiring English sources

"There is a whole raft waiting to join them, and for very obvious reasons.

I didn't necessarily feel like we were going to die, but I thought we would be spending at least 10 days standing on an iceberg or in a raft waiting to be rescued.

Others climbed down a ladder on the side as a lone orange life raft waited below.

I asked him what it had been like in the rafts, waiting for rescue.

Mainer lost many shipmates that day – it was the deadliest attack on US territory until 11 September 2001 – and was on the Helena when it was torpedoed again by the Japanese in July 1943, watching it sink from a life raft and waiting four hours for rescue.

He and three other survivors of a plane crash are gaunt after 27 days at sea: "Sharks glided in lazy loops around them, dragging their backs along the rafts, waiting". Spotting a plane, Zamperini fires off two flares only to discover that it is a Japanese bomber.

Splashing down 250 nautical miles from the nearest recovery ship, he got out of his capsule through a top hatch, then inflated his raft and waited to be picked up.

To test the surfactant activity, 5 μl supernatant was added on to the center of the crude oil raft and waited for 30 s to allow formation of the oil-spreading zone (OSZ).

Starbucks regulars will at first see no change at all, then may find a raft of them waiting one morning.

Two aluminum skiffs are waiting, rafted together.

Left at home, sleepless and alone — I have a mother somewhere, but I never knew her — I imagined that each shirt on the floor was a dead uncle and I could not leave the tipsy life raft of my bed, waiting out those long nights when the ocean fog was cool and full of premonitions and the beacon at the end of the breakwater threw green shadows against the walls of my room.