lifeboat
Example Sentences
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After the vessel transporting his family from India to Canada sinks, Pi escapes to a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a tiger—and his situation gets more complicated with each passing day.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Making it to the lifeboat was not much better.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
“There’s not many of us left that did lighthouses or lifeboat stations, guys — mostly guys, almost exclusively — like me.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025
Last year, lifeboat crews responded 114 times to small boats - representing just over 1% of their total call-outs across the UK and Ireland.
From BBC • Jul. 29, 2025
“Ha! Louise,” I retorted, “she couldn’t tell me from you at the lifeboat drill. ‘
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
