How to Use lifeboat in a Sentence

lifeboat

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  • With no word from the captain, the crew fled to the lifeboats.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Some made it to the lifeboats, which were swamped by the waves or smashed against the rocks.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Episode 6, on the boat, when June is trying to steal a lifeboat.
    — Daniel Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Gazprom’s new army may be a lifeboat for the coming storm.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The lifeboat that was pulled down was still tethered to the wreckage.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 1 Mar. 2023
  • When none were at hand, men were allowed to board the lifeboats.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
  • The crew members, who knew what was in the hold, hurried to their lifeboats.
    — Stephen Maher, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Donald Trump looks like the guy in the lifeboat with the women and children.
    — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2019
  • With no sails, the Atlanta soon sank and the crew was forced into a lifeboat.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The robotic camera also showed the lifeboat tied to the ship's stern.
    — John Flesher, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2023
  • White said that the four men in the lifeboat were not skilled at rowing, so the women took over the task.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
  • When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot.
    — Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Was there a sales process for lifeboats on the Titanic?
    — Emily Mason, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The wreck was a small two-masted schooner, about 60 or 70 feet in length, with a lifeboat at its stern.
    — Fox News, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The team was forced to abandon ship and set out on foot, pulling sledges and lifeboats along with them over the snow and ice.
    — National Geographic, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The pilot of one of Viking Sun's lifeboats pulls up at the dock in Cienfuegos.
    — Marjie Lambert, miamiherald, 1 Feb. 2018
  • At the same time a motor lifeboat raced out from Newport.
    — Quinton Smith, oregonlive, 18 Sep. 2021
  • He was seen standing on the deck as lifeboats were lowered.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The old lifeboat on display is just the beginning of the story.
    — oregonlive, 22 July 2021
  • The area looked like a clipper ship, complete with 50-foot masts with sails, a teak deck and even a lifeboat.
    — Ron Miscavige, Esquire, 3 May 2016
  • The men used parts of the other lifeboats to reinforce the James Caird for a long sea journey.
    — Daniella McCahey, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The dead included 28 women and 13 children, most of whom were aboard the first lifeboats to leave the ship.
    — Erica Westly, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The ship’s deck, hull and stern cabin can also be seen, as well as its lifeboat.
    — Fox News, 14 Nov. 2019
  • But nobody managed to untie the painter, the rope which tethered the lifeboat to the vessel.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The Coast Guard later found lifeboats, life rings and other debris from the ship.
    — Mike Ives, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • In the mad rush to the lifeboats, hundreds of companies were stranded on deck.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Her maid Ellen Bird was one of the survivors who got on a lifeboat and was later able to retell the encounter.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 22 June 2023
  • The 32 crew members boarded two lifeboats and were towed to shore by a fishing boat.
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 13 May 2024
  • With limited power, food and water, the crew had to rely on the Lunar Module, which was meant for the moon landing, as a lifeboat.
    — Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The company famously cut down the number of lifeboats to save space, and its workers were poorly trained to fill them in a rescue scenario.
    — Tyler Buchanan, Axios, 1 Aug. 2024

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