lifeboat
Example Sentences
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Here are some of our favorite lifeboats during a year of rough seas.
From Los Angeles Times
Santa's key worker was later discovered on Formby beach using thermal binoculars, while a local lifeboat quad bike team stepped in to shepherd him into some sand dunes.
From BBC
Most of the Housatonic’s 155 crewmembers saved themselves by launching lifeboats or by climbing into the ship’s rigging, which towered safely above the harbor’s shallow twenty-seven-foot depth.
From Literature
“There’s not many of us left that did lighthouses or lifeboat stations, guys — mostly guys, almost exclusively — like me.”
From Los Angeles Times
The 1884 death of a cabin boy in a lifeboat was no accident.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
