lifeboat
Example Sentences
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Four crew members were rescued by lifeboat and HM Coastguard said the vessel remained aground and the responsibility of its owner.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
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
The 1884 death of a cabin boy in a lifeboat was no accident.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 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
It wasn’t a long walk to our lifeboat.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
