lifeboat

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Recent Examples of lifeboat Visitors can walk down a Titanic hallway, snap pictures next to a gilded statue, and sit in a simulated lifeboat while watching the ship sink. John Wenzel, Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2025 Britain's Maritime and Coastguard Agency said several lifeboats and a coast guard rescue helicopter were dispatched to the scene in the North Sea, along with a coast guard plane. Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025 The Oceanic lifted the lifeboat onto its deck and brought it to New York. Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025 This bought the crew time to launch the lifeboats safely rather than feeling their way in complete darkness, Titanic analyst Parks Stephenson told BBC News. Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lifeboat
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Noun
  • High up the sides of the room is a forest of fake fir trees on the peaks of the mountain and on the lower level there’s a harbour with full-size longboats sitting in it.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Colonial pilots would unload their cargo onto smaller longboats so it could be carried 100 miles upstream to New Orleans, to avoid getting stuck in the mud.
    Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
Noun
  • Dove/Torr Cottage, Centerport After a decade living on their yawl in Huntington Harbor and a stint upstate after his mother died, artists Arthur Dove and Helen Torr were able to purchase an old post-office building perched alongside Titus Mill Pond in 1938.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 27 July 2024
  • Prior to the incident, Wilson had been aboard a 52-foot yawl named the Emerald with friends Oster and Colleen McGovern.
    Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
Noun
  • The Motor Vessel Neil N. Diehl went through Lock and Dam 2, in Hastings on Wednesday, with nine barges.
    Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Related article Recovery of DC jet wreckage begins as investigators review new information The wreckage was transferred, one piece at a time, from a barge to a flatbed truck parked only a couple of hundred feet from the airport’s main runway.
    Andy Rose, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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    Danielle Directo-Meston, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The wholesale market got a yellow placard after county inspectors spotted old food accumulation on the ceiling panel above the meat cutter.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The tenders will be served in three or four pieces, along with dipping sauces, including barbecue, spicy buffalo, ranch dressing and a new creamy chili.
    Jade Walker, CNN Money, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Bird Dogs come from South Carolina and are chicken tenders served in a hot dog bun, the news release said.
    Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The 45-minute riverboat tour occurs every day of the year, weather permitting, and there are miles of beautiful trails for walking or biking through the ancient cypress swamp.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2025
  • At first, the company was skeptical that Indiana policymakers would allow riverboat gambling.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Founded in the 1950s, the auxiliary supports The Salvation Army’s social service programs.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Chrissy Davis is the co-president of the auxiliary of Infant Welfare Family Health and is on the board of directors of Infant Welfare Society of Chicago.
    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • McIlroy stayed on an even keel after getting back to 12-under, shooting par in his next four holes before taking a four-stroke lead over DeChambeau, Ludvig Åberg and Rose, who birdied four times during a six-hole stretch to get back into the running at 9-under, after birdying the ninth hole.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Over the years, other forms of transport were added giving guests the option of traveling on smaller keel boats and canoes.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Lifeboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lifeboat. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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