lifeboat
Example Sentences
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A major operation was launched involving HM Coastguard, lifeboats and helicopters after calls to the emergency services at about 15:00 GMT on 2 January.
From BBC
They lower themselves into one of the few lifeboats, leaving Jim on deck: Should he flee like a rat or wake the sleeping passengers, knowing that they, and he, cannot survive?
Once on the lifeboat he was wrapped in warm blankets and it was "assessed that an ambulance and rapid evacuation would be required".
From BBC
Making it to the lifeboat was not much better.
Here are some of our favorite lifeboats during a year of rough seas.
From Los Angeles Times
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