raft-like

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

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