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The latest we saw, Jim, was that this yellow raft-like mechanism has been inflated and that maybe this whale will be to towed somewhere.

CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2006 2006

We arrived here this morning in broad sunlight, which lit up the sea-girt buildings as we approached so that they seemed like a city of cork floating raft-like on the smooth, blue deep.

A Changed Man 2006

Images from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express show raft-like ground structures - dubbed "plates" - that look similar to ice formations near Earth's poles, according to an international team of scientists.

Blue Mars rising sbisson 2005

Long and heavy pieces of angle-iron came bolted to raft-like sections of the deck; various kinds of timber proved useful in a variety of ways.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

From time to time the humans were joined on their raft-like perch by crawlpaws similar to the ones they had encountered on the island.

HOTHOUSE Aldiss, Brian 1962

At sea, monstrosities of every sort floated in the Solent, long raft-like things proceeding very slowly under their own power, tall spiky things, things like a block of flats afloat upon the startled sea.

The Breaking Wave Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1955

The hull was to be formed of two portions, a kind of barge-like structure or lower hull, built of iron, and mostly under water when the ship was afloat, and fixed over this the upper hull, a raft-like structure, wider and longer, and with overhanging armoured sides and lighter deck-armour.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

It consisted of a revolving turret with 8-inch armor and two 11-inch smoothbore guns, set on a raft-like structure

A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916

On they went, the Spider's depression growing perceptibly, until at last their feet trod the rough planking of a narrow causeway which ended in a dark, raft-like structure moored out in the river.

The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

One of the four air-tight barrels which supported it had caught in the mud and kept the buoyant, raft-like platform from being carried downstream in the rush of water.

Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913