noun
raft
a flat float (usually made of logs or planks) that can be used for transport or as a platform for swimmers
In a sentence
Six example sentences with raft, each labelled with its topic.
Our guide lashed empty barrels beneath the bamboo raft, and we drifted downriver past villages that no road reaches.
Travel
I anchored the tripod on a wooden raft to shoot the heron at water level without startling it.
Photography
Swimmers race two hundred meters out to the moored raft, rest a full minute, then push back toward shore.
Fitness
In 1947 Heyerdahl sailed a balsa raft from Peru across the Pacific to prove ancient sailors could have done it.
History
The survival game starts you on a tiny raft, fishing planks from the sea to build it plank by plank.
Gaming
The film's shipwrecked hero lashes barrels and planks into a raft, and the camera stays on the water for an hour.
Movies
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