RAFT in a Sentence

Learn RAFT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

91 example sentences for RAFT, such as:

1. She spent seven days afloat on a raft.
2. By this time Jim was gone for the raft.
3. The survivors were adrift on a raft for six days.
4. Now the raft was passing before the distant town.
5. It warn't good judgment to put everything on the raft.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAFT
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raft
 n.  a flat float made of logs or planks; a large number or amount or extent
Classic Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1  There was a small log raft there which they meant to capture.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  They saw a fire smouldering upon a great raft a hundred yards above, and they went stealthily thither and helped themselves to a chunk.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  As the boys steadily and monotonously drove the raft toward mid-stream it was no doubt understood that these orders were given only for "style," and were not intended to mean anything in particular.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  Now the raft was passing before the distant town.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  About two o'clock in the morning the raft grounded on the bar two hundred yards above the head of the island, and they waded back and forth until they had landed their freight.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  A vagrant current or a slight rise in the river had carried off their raft, but this only gratified them, since its going was something like burning the bridge between them and civilization.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  So he locked me in and took the skiff, and started off towing the raft about half-past three.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
9  Before he was t'other side of the river I was out of the hole; him and his raft was just a speck on the water away off yonder.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
10  By that time everything we had in the world was on our raft, and she was ready to be shoved out from the willow cove where she was hid.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
11  IT must a been close on to one o'clock when we got below the island at last, and the raft did seem to go mighty slow.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
12  It warn't good judgment to put everything on the raft.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
13  Jim made a floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
14  We stayed in the wigwam and let the raft take care of itself.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
15  By this time Jim was gone for the raft.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
Example Sentence:
1  Sailing across the Atlantic on a raft was an adventure.
2  The raft gathered speed as the current dragged it toward the falls.
3  The raft came close to the rocks and then sheered away.
4  Businesses would lose a whole raft of deductions, including those for employee benefits such as health care.
5  We have designed a whole raft of measures to improve the transport system.
6  She spent seven days afloat on a raft.
7  The survivors were adrift on a raft for six days.
8  And when you get through robbing it you'll come back here and wonder what has become of me and Jim and the raft -- and you'll have to take it out in wondering.
9  After breakfast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable.
10  There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam -- and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft.
11  After breakfast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable, and lit his pipe, and went to getting his Romeo and Juliet by heart.
12  Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws.
13  A raft of new research published over the summer is posing ever more serious questions about whether neonicotinoids, the most common insecticides in the world, are affecting birds and bees more widely than previously thought.
14  We laid there all day, and watched the rafts and steamboats spin down the Missouri shore.
15  The white-water rafting guide warned us about the rapids farther downstream, where the river cut through a narrow gorge.