lifeboat

noun

Definition of lifeboatnext
as in longboat

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Recent Examples of lifeboat Passengers on the other lifeboat were able to pull two of the crew members out of the water. — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025 The collision triggered a major rescue operation by lifeboats, coast guard aircraft and commercial vessels. — arkansasonline.com, 11 Mar. 2025 The collision triggered a major rescue operation by lifeboats, coast guard aircraft and commercial vessels in the foggy North Sea. — CBS News, 11 Mar. 2025 Several lifeboats and a coast guard rescue helicopter were dispatched to the scene in the North Sea, along with a coast guard plane and nearby vessels with firefighting capability. — William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lifeboat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lifeboat
  1. longboat
  2. yawl
  3. barge
  4. cutter
  5. tender
  6. riverboat
  7. auxiliary
  8. keel
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
Definition of longboat
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
Definition of yawl
Noun
  • The key objective of the New Glenn's first uncrewed spaceflight last month was for the second stage of the vehicle to safely reach orbit before Blue Origin attempted to land the rocket booster, or first stage, on a barge several hundred miles offshore in the Atlantic.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The pieces were lifted by a crane and placed onto a barge with other parts recovered from the flight that took off from Wichita, Kansas, Wednesday for Washington's Reagan National Airport with 60 passengers and four crew members on board.
    — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2025
Definition of barge
Noun
  • The cutter was relatively effective (.416 expected opponent slugging percentage), as was his sweeper (.428 XSLG), but left-handed hitters teed off on his four-seamer (.778 XSLG) and change-up (.509 XSLG).
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Through August, Webb’s cutter accounted for 1.1% of his pitches.
    — Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
Definition of cutter
Noun
  • The two, 29-year-old tenders, are signed through next season, with Jarry earning $5.365 million AAV compared to Nedelkkovic’s $2.5 million.
    — Tyler Small, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Hot chicken tenders and cold boxes of chicken were also outside of their respective safe temperature ranges.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of tender
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
Definition of riverboat
Noun
  • The nineteenth-century armies of Qing China integrated Han, Mongol, and Manchu populations and relied on numerous local auxiliaries.
    — Jason Lyall, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2020
  • China’s annual parliamentary sessions, the National People’s Congress (NPC) and its advisory auxiliary, the CPPCC come to a close with the economy and unemployment at the top the agenda.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
Definition of auxiliary
Noun
  • 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
  • The keel is the main structural member of the ship's hull and laying it down is the equivalent to laying the cornerstone of a building.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2025
Definition of keel

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