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US
/ˈɫaɪfˌboʊt/
]
[ UK /lˈaɪfbəʊt/ ]
[ UK /lˈaɪfbəʊt/ ]
NOUN
- a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship
How To Use lifeboat In A Sentence
- Kirkwall lifeboat was called out to a boat aground in the Rousay Sound on Sunday afternoon.
- Once again, the RNLI lifeboat was called out, when a quarter-decked fishing boat was reported in danger of foundering on the rocks.
- Others stayed on the slippery canting decks until the City of Benares foundered, struggling to free rafts and jammed lifeboats. THE LONELY SEA
- These were flat-bottomed craft with a shallow draft, and were lowered from the davits of larger troop-carrying merchantmen, like lifeboats.
- The ship, with fifteen hundred passengers, and fitted with sufficient lifeboats after the tragedy of the Titanic two years before, sailed in late afternoon, heading east down the St. Lawrence Seaway. Bird Cloud
- Iceberg dead ahead! SOS ! Man the lifeboats! We're going down! There, isn't that a comfort ?
- The vessel's net entangled and fouled the 52-foot motor lifeboat's twin 36-inch brass propellers.
- We understand that the Navy is not expected to intervene but will not allow that lifeboat to leave with that hostage to go back to what's called a mothership if you will. CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2009
- TD: Well, it's my first new studio music in nearly twenty years, and I've written most of the music in England in the wheelhouse of my solar powered lifeboat looking out over the North Sea, which is a very inspiring place to be. Mike Ragogna: TED, Solar Power, Windpower, and All Things Amerikana : A Conversation with Thomas Dolby
- The main points of interest on the three deck levels are the railings, lifeboat davits and companionways.