How to Use raft in a Sentence

raft

noun

• There were no people in the raft, the coast guard said.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• Would that a raft of other humans had said the same thing.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
• The rafts can carry up to six people, not counting the guide.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 7 July 2023
• So don’t expect a raft of Polo 79s to hit stores this year.
  — Ming Liu, Robb Report, 6 Feb. 2024
• River flows have to be just right where they can be run in kayaks and rafts — not too high and not too low.
  — Pete Zimowsky, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Among the last, Rockman paints a container ship and a Cuban refugee raft.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• As the Christmas songs are swept from the chart for another year, a raft of singles vault up the tally.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2024
• All four aboard the Moon Dragon were found safe in the raft and were uninjured, using a radio to call for help.
  — Victoria Arancio, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2023
• Most managed to swim the half mile to shore, some pushing their children on makeshift bamboo rafts.
  — Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
• The tennis tour has in recent months issued a raft of bans and suspensions.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
• In the meantime, a raft of economic data is scheduled to land.
  — David Marino-Nachison, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Congress must fill them in by passing a raft of spending bills later this year.
  — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 29 May 2023
• Only Rose used the makeshift raft, with Jack dying of hypothermia.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 12 Feb. 2024
• Now, Donharl, who guides river raft trips in the summer, is the union president.
  — Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• Brody’s wife, Leighton Meester, and their friend Taran Killam join him as distrusting siblings on a raft ride to hell.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2023
• On Earth, a porous volcanic rock known as pumice often forms into ocean rafts that float for weeks or months.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
• Our camera caught a family with three young children, one in a body cast, crossing the river with pool rafts and a rope.
  — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 6 May 2023
• And the range is wide: igloo, electric, raft, infrared, wood-burning, and traditional smoke saunas, to name a few.
  — Lisa Lucas, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
• Ten rafters beat back the cougar with paddles and the group eventually retreated to safety in their raft.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2023
• And then his two siblings are kind of on a raft, navigating the extreme force of their mother’s and their brother’s fame.
  — The New Yorker, 12 July 2023
• The wreck led to a raft of safety improvements, among them, it is believed, the dead man’s switch, a fail-safe now found in all kinds of modern machinery.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024
• The zippered case splits in half, with each wing featuring a raft of unique packing solutions.
  — Ashlea Halpern, wsj.com, 21 Oct. 2023
• Sheeran then allegedly swam beneath the victim and grabbed his feet as the other boy laughed from the raft, the police report said.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• Blackburn added that from huge collections of pianos to outdoor rafts to even taxidermy, Pelett was not afraid to buy big.
  — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2023
• Quintero's family came to the United States on a raft from Cuba before she was born.
  — Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
• The victim said Sheeran left him alone for about 15 minutes and then returned on a raft with the other boy, paddling toward him.
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• Metellus’s ships weren’t big enough to carry them, so the Romans tied rafts together, then led the animals across them to the mainland.
  — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
• The White House has reserved most of its ire for top airlines, lambasting them for a raft of fees that Biden has described as costly and unfair.
  — Tony Romm, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• Gorley, 45, has written hits for a raft of country artists, as well as such non-country artists as Bon Jovi and Jason Derulo.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2023
• The bond-buying offers a rare bit of good news for China bulls, following a raft of weak economic data over the last few months.
  — WSJ, 24 July 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024