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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As soon as his life raft boomed into the sea, Delaney pulled the quick release tag and dropped from his harness.
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Finally one end of the hawser was fastened to the bank, and the makeshift life raft was dispatched.
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For McKenzie, the tide had turned again and he watched helplessly as his life raft drifted back over the horizon.
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He greeted Collingridge's downfall like a drowning man discovers a life raft .
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In the middle of the store, dangling by nylon wires from the ceiling, was an orange rubber life raft .
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Men who hold tenaciously to a life raft may expect to he cast upon strange shores among strange companions.
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She is the person most centered on the child since the moment he held on to her like another life raft .
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The cabin is gouged open, spilling out wooden crates, twisted pieces of metal, a blown-up life raft .