lifeboat

[US]/'laɪfbəʊt/
[UK]/'laɪfbot/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. small boat used for transporting passengers in emergency situations for evacuation.
Word Forms
Plurallifeboats

Example Sentences

the lifeboat was carried astern by the tide.

Lifeboats picked up all the survivors.

there was lifeboat accommodation for 1,178 people.

the town's lifeboat was launched to rescue the fishermen.

the lifeboat met seas of thirty-five feet head-on.

The lifeboat brought off most of the shipwrecked sailors.

We're ready for the lifeboats—lower away!

It took my last reserves of strength and will to swim to the lifeboat.

the lifeboat crew braved rough seas to rescue a couple.

the task of sledging 10-metre lifeboats across tundra.

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