rafts

IPA: rˈæfts

Examples of "rafts" in Sentences

What is the physiological function of lipid rafts
When I started camping as a kid those "rafts" WERE air matresses, and the only air matresses.
This is done on what is called rafts, built upon a flat with dales, and the barrels depending from the sides.
Moreover, monomeric α-syn can be found in lipid rafts, which is required for the synaptic localization of α-syn
We had never made a raft, any of us, but the way to make rafts is better described in books, so we knew what to do.
Addison drove them to the railway station, where the old Squire checked their empty image "rafts" in the baggage car.
Our illustration (Fig. 1) represents the kind of rafts supplied to her Majesty's troop ships, while Figs. 2 and 3 show deck seats convertible into rafts, which are intended for ordinary passenger steamers.
On one of the rafts was a shanty of newly sawed pine boards; it had no windows, but it was evidently a home, for a stove-pipe came through its roof, and there was a woman sitting in its little doorway, nursing her baby.
At first I was minded to send a boat after them, but by this time the rafts were a good two miles beyond the harbour, and Mrs. Purchase said, 'No, they can do no good, poor dears; let them have their few hours' pleasure. '
Upon one of the rafts was a short net, which, from the size of the meshes, was probably intended to catch turtle; upon another was a young shark; and these, with their paddles and spears, seemed to constitute the whole of their earthly riches.