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
Once on the lifeboat he was wrapped in warm blankets and it was "assessed that an ambulance and rapid evacuation would be required".
From BBC • Jan. 12, 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
He looked around, relieved that he wasn’t all by himself, and to his shock, just ahead, he saw a lifeboat.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
