1 Sailing across the Atlantic on a raft was an adventure.
2 The raft gathered speed as the current dragged it toward the falls.
3 The raft came close to the rocks and then sheered away.
4 Businesses would lose a whole raft of deductions, including those for employee benefits such as health care.
5 We have designed a whole raft of measures to improve the transport system.
6 She spent seven days afloat on a raft.
7 The survivors were adrift on a raft for six days.
8 And when you get through robbing it you'll come back here and wonder what has become of me and Jim and the raft -- and you'll have to take it out in wondering.
9 After breakfast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable.
10 There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam -- and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft.
11 After breakfast the king he took a seat on the corner of the raft, and pulled off his boots and rolled up his britches, and let his legs dangle in the water, so as to be comfortable, and lit his pipe, and went to getting his Romeo and Juliet by heart.
12 Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws.
13 A raft of new research published over the summer is posing ever more serious questions about whether neonicotinoids, the most common insecticides in the world, are affecting birds and bees more widely than previously thought.
14 We laid there all day, and watched the rafts and steamboats spin down the Missouri shore.
15 The white-water rafting guide warned us about the rapids farther downstream, where the river cut through a narrow gorge.