How to Use lifeboat in a Sentence

lifeboat

noun

• 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
• The crew survived by escaping onto lifeboats but the Halsey sank and now sits in three parts about 65 feet below the surface.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 13 May 2024
• When the sea ice finally disintegrated in April 1916, the crew launched lifeboats and managed to reach Elephant Island five days later.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 June 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024