Use "rafts" in a sentence

1. It was just before breakfast on an Afternoonday and he was working his way thru the city in a long line of rafts getting towed by keda teams along the canals

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2. Cargo was transferred from lake vessels to urban canal rafts in the outer harbor and then towed by rope into and thru the canals

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3. There were lines of ships and rafts anchored off every lock entry, ropes being paddled in and out, barges being drawn both ways in a complex ballet who's rhythm wasn't obvious at first

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4. He could have boarded a number of native rafts by now

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5. "Anyone have any experience on anything but the local rafts?"

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6. The boat was so small that a dozen of them could have been carried on the deck of one of the sailing rafts on the rivers of Alan's world

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7. I went up the creek first, where, as I hinted, I brought my rafts on shore

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8. The original rulers, to whom he claimed some vague relationship, were descendants of the legendary Naymlap, who arrived on the coast, accompanied by attendants, a wife, and concubines on a fleet of rafts made of a lightweight, native wood

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9. Naymlap—legendary ancestor of pre-Chimu dynasty along Lambayeque River, which is said to have arrived on rafts

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10. 19 And when they came to the place of the ditches, the waters revolved by mills, and two hundred men on ten rafts were drowned

11. 19 And when they came to the place of the ditches the waters revolved by mills and two hundred men on ten rafts were drowned

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12. The exhausted crews staggered up away from the river, away from its rafts of dead fish, thickly clouded over by countless swarms of flies

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13. “I told them we would have to build rafts

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14. Most illegal immigrants from Latin America do not have the money to hire experienced smugglers with high speed boats, and depend on unseaworthy rafts which require the Coast Guard to chase them down to enforce immigration law, and carry out what often turns into search and rescue missions

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15. A few remaining rafts tied to wooden posts flopped on the

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16. followed them as they tried to escape in the rafts

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17. passing rafts of legislation, with more and more penalties for minor

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18. The four could see inflatable rafts landing on the sand

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19. As they left, Greg was pleased to see Myra directing the group in raiding what little remained in the disabled shuttle’s food lockers and loading the contents into the life rafts

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20. The horrified survivors from the BARRACUDA, huddled into life rafts, could only watch as the NARWHAL blew up in a spectacular fireball

21. ‘All life rafts have a drogue which acts as a small sea anchor, Will

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22. Looking with his binoculars the Japanese heavy cruiser that was sinking inside the bay, he saw a number of lifeboats and rafts being put at sea

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23. Staying with his last squad, Ken arrived at a beach six kilometers from Cavite as two life rafts overloaded with Japanese sailors were approaching the coast

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24. At least twenty Japanese were aboard the rafts, with many more holding to them and pushing them towards the beach

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25. She agreed a price on the spot; apparently she was going there anyway with a cargo of inflatable life rafts

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26. most of us, are like rafts that have been hastily constructed from too

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27. It carried two hundred thousand men and women, and provided enough space in its hull for fifteen battleships, thirty full destroyers, five hundred short destroyers, two thousand G15 destroyers, and twenty thousand shuttles (which were also life rafts)

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28. Amidst the rafts of

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29. “Federal regulations only require rafts if we are routed over water for more than thirty mintues…”

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30. They then continued firing, resolved to keep the Chinese patrol boats away from their comrades swimming on the surface of the sea or crowded in the few rescue rafts that had been lowered in the water

31. He could clearly see many of his comrades in the rafts, including a few officers, frantically waving at his gun crew to jump off the ship before it was too late

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32. Gulping air, Steve looked around him, trying to locate one of the life rafts

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33. One of the rafts was by chance already approaching, the sailors in it rowing with their hands

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34. With their moral back up, the sailors hurried to prepare their wounded for priority evacuation as the two AC-10s slowed down to a hover and maneuvered to lower their rescue baskets besides the rafts and lifeboats

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35. At this point, Baby Man interrupted our suggestions: “Excuse me for speaking out of turn, as I know I am but a boy who sometimes knows more than he should, but in the world I come from there are rafts much larger than this in the rivers leading to the great blue water

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36. I remember seeing them, and they all had long paddles at the rear of the rafts to steer them as they drifted

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37. It was so pleasant that I began to wonder why people didn’t live on the water like this, but on larger rafts with larger bamboo huts

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38. Of course there were always hippos and crocodiles on the river—and they could be very dangerous—but I couldn’t help thinking that they could be easily avoided if the rafts were held high above the water by large poles stuck in the river bottom

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39. Baby Man, who was not to be outdone, explained this is how large rafts were steered in the world he came from, especially where the water was deep—as it was here

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40. The continents are like rafts drifting in a sea of

41. Rafts and snowshoes definitely have seasonal value

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42. rafts to use on the lake but he was sure someone would come up with

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43. If I had more time it would have been a tempting option to take several days to build rafts and sail across Lake Orlone and avoid confrontation altogether, but I had rejected it as too many of the people would be lost in the tempestuous waters of the lake and I had no time to build the rafts anyway

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44. If we hadn’t come back to the dock in time Flynn was to leave the Celestia’s Prize’s life rafts stationed off of the North, East, West sides of the island

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45. the rafts to shore and headed towards him

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46. and they tethered the rafts together so they wouldn't get separated

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47. rafts and water sloshed over the sides

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48. The wind and rain assaulted the small rafts and

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49. “Are there any supplies on the rafts?”

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50. There was a brisk breeze blowing across the rafts and both

51. Darkness fell on the rafts for the second night

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52. rafts and were rowing toward it

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53. Just before the rafts reached the beach, two of the guards jumped out and

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54. pulled the rafts onto the sand

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55. He wandered along the bank of the Ekaterininsky Canal for half an hour or more and looked several times at the steps running down to the water, but he could not think of carrying out his plan; either rafts stood at the steps' edge, and women were washing clothes on them, or boats were moored there, and people were swarming everywhere

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56. castle, and, stationing ourselves beside our rafts, we waited to see what would

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57. our rafts and rowed with all our might out to sea

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58. them after us with such good aim that all the rafts except the one I was upon

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59. The place to buy canoes is off of rafts laying up at shore

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60. The bank on that side was rocky, unsuitable for loading barges and rafts, so all the wharves were on the more accessible south side, in the suburb of Newtown

61. The south bank of the river was lined with wharves and warehouses, and rafts and barges were being unloaded at several of them

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62. Life rafts were deployed manually: from inside the plane, crewmen could pull a release handle just before ditching or crashing; from outside a floating plane, they could climb on the wings and turn raft-release levers

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63. Once deployed, rafts inflated automatically

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64. Survivors had to get to rafts immediately

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65. Life rafts were stocked with radios and better provisions, boats were set out along the paths flown by military planes, and searches were handled by designated rescue squadrons equipped with float planes

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66. Two life rafts, holding the entire five-man B-25 crew, floated amid plane debris

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67. Knifing agitated circles in the water, the creatures seemed on the verge of overturning the rafts

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68. Because life rafts didn’t deploy automatically in a crash, it was the engineer’s duty to stand behind the cockpit to pull the overhead raft-release handle

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69. To ensure that the rafts would be near enough to the plane for survivors to swim to them, he would have to wait until just before the crash to pull the handle

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70. Louie saw one of the life rafts bobbing on the water

71. He fed the cords through grommets in the rafts and tied them together

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72. With Phil relatively stable, Louie turned his attention to the rafts

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73. Pockets in the rafts contained some survival provisions

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74. The last trace of Green Hornet, the shimmer of gas, hydraulic fluid, and oil that had wreathed the rafts since the crash, faded away

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75. A neat, sharp form, flat and shining, cut the surface and began tracing circles around the rafts

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76. The circle of color around the rafts faded away

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77. Since planes on the north-south passage from Hawaii followed a flight lane that ran close to Green Hornet’s crash site, the appearance of a B-25 far to the east almost certainly meant that the rafts were drifting west, away from the view of friendly planes

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78. It was so near the rafts that Louie thought he recognized the insignia of their squadron, the 42nd, on the plane’s tail

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79. There was nothing anywhere near it: no debris, no rafts, no men

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80. The rafts baked along with their occupants, emitting a bitter smell

81. It grew, darkened, billowed over the rafts, and lidded the sun

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82. The pilot had ditched the plane, and it had floated long enough for the men to get into rafts

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83. The men had drifted for weeks, surviving on stores in the rafts, rainwater, fish, and bird meat

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84. Finally, the rafts had split up, and one had reached an island

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85. The rafts slid on the current, their tethers snaking behind them

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86. The dolphins rushed at the rafts and were soon muscling all around them

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87. If they had had a net, they could have whisked it through the water and filled the rafts

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88. Other than the sharks, the only fish that ventured near the rafts were pilot fish, which hugged the sides of the sharks as they circled

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89. As the castaways slumped in the rafts, trying to accept another lost chance, over the western horizon there was a glimmer, tracing a wide curve, then banking toward the rafts

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90. There was a deafening noise, and the rafts began hopping and shuddering under the castaways

91. They swam under the rafts and huddled there, watching bullets tear through the rafts and cut bright slits in the water around them

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92. In the distance, the bomber swung around and began flying at the rafts again

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93. Flying about two hundred feet over the water, the bomber raced at them, following a path slightly parallel to the rafts, so that its side passed into view

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94. Louie took a last glance at them, then dropped into the water and swam back under the rafts

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95. , a few hours before it had reached the rafts

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96. And he remembered the Japanese bomber swooping over the rafts, riddling them with bullets, and yet not a single bullet had struck him, Phil, or Mac

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97. Or that we might have gotten lucky with the explosion rafts

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98. Nor had the general settled for purely defensive measures, and the explosion rafts should have accomplished more than they had

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