How to Use refloat in a Sentence

refloat

verb

• The ship was refloated and moved from the crash site on May 20.
  — Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 12 June 2024
• Efforts to refloat the boat and tow it to Sitka are ongoing, Gray said.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
• Officials still expect to refloat the ship within the next few days.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 14 May 2024
• The ship is expected to be refloated and guided back to the Port of Baltimore in the coming days.
  — Lea Skene, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• Once the ship has been fully refloated, tugboats will pull the Dali to a Baltimore port.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 May 2024
• Eight tugboats have been dispatched in an attempt to refloat the vessel.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• The next step is to refloat the Dali so that it can be guided to a nearby terminal at the port for temporary repairs.
  — Joel Rose, NPR, 14 May 2024
• At least eight tugboats have been brought in to reposition and refloat the vessel.
  — USA Today, 26 Mar. 2021
• Volunteers first managed to refloat the whales on Monday evening's high tide.
  — Nick Perry, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• The Egyptian official said tugboats hoped to refloat the ship and that the operation would take at least two days.
  — Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2021
• As the Dali, which rested on the bay bottom, was refloated and as wreckage was cleared from the shipping channel, the pipeline remained turned off.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2024
• Earlier this month, the largest part of the bridge span was demolished and the Dali was refloated and escorted back into port last week.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 27 May 2024
• Scientists and sailors have charted the changing tides for eons, so crews working to salvage the Ever Given would have known when to try and refloat the ship.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2021
• In the end, the heavens offered a helping hand when unusually high tides allowed teams to refloat the vessel.
  — Mirette Magdy, Fortune, 7 July 2021
• The containers must be stabilized and the vessel must be refloated, Spellmon said, adding that the Coast Guard and the shipping company are in charge of this step.
  — Scott Neuman, NPR, 31 Mar. 2024
• However, the division learned on Saturday that the boat had been refloated about 8 feet away from the stone, the department said.
  — Michelle Watson, CNN, 19 Mar. 2023
• Freeing the ship from the bridge debris will ultimately lead to the Dali being refloated before moving it out of the way to restore traffic through the port.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 14 May 2024
• Despite the 30-degree angle, the vessel was said not to have touched the concrete walls and was successfully refloated.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2024
• One of the largest ships at sea is stranded sideways in one of the world’s key shipping canals, blocking millions of dollars in trade as frantic efforts to refloat it unfold.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• Early Sunday morning, buoyed by a high tide and a lighter load, five tugboats and two pulling barges, with 500 metric tons of pulling force each, will try to refloat the big ship that has nearly become a mainstay of the bay.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2022
• To refloat the ship carefully, crews will also have to conduct a dive survey, Unified Command said Wednesday.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
• There were some promising signs early on Monday when the rear of the Ever Given was dislodged from one of the canal's banks, but efforts to fully refloat the ship are likely to continue for some time.
  — Lina El Wardani, CNN, 29 Mar. 2021
• Given the large number of distressed dolphins, the plan is to triage and support the animals before attempting to refloat and herd as many as possible.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 June 2024
• Sharp compares the refloating experience to whack-a-mole, rushing from dolphin to dolphin trying to keep them upright as the tide rushes back in.
  — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 19 July 2024
• After several days of dredging mud from around the hull, authorities made their first effort Tuesday to refloat the ship, working for hours, Reaves said.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
• Earlier, the canal authority had said in a statement that salvage crews were attempting to refloat the ship, with 10 tug boats being used to pull it from both front and back to try to extricate it.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 29 Mar. 2021
• Dredging began on March 20, and after more than a week of such efforts, authorities announced that Tuesday would be their first attempt to refloat it.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2022
• According to an Associated Press report, the plan to refloat the ship includes lightening the ballast, dredging the mud around the ship and refloating the ship at high tide using tug boats and the ship's engine.
  — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2022
• The Dali container ship has been stationary amid the wreckage since the collapse, but crews plan to refloat and remove the ship, allowing more maritime traffic to resume through Baltimore’s port.
  — Brian Witte, Fortune, 2 May 2024
• An attempt to refloat the ship early on Friday failed, but dredging continued over the weekend and an early-morning attempt on Monday succeeded, buoyed in part by high tides brought by the full moon.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024