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
He stands in a trance and—against his better instincts—jumps into a lifeboat.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 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
The lifeboat already had 68 people on board from an earlier incident.
From BBC • Jul. 29, 2025
I brought out a second rope and tethered the raft to the lifeboat with it.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
