Get to know Lifeboat better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Lifeboat meaning
- A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
- An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.
Synonyms of Lifeboat
Using Lifeboat
- The main meaning on this page is: A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship). | An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.
- Useful related words include: sea boat.
- In the example corpus, lifeboat often appears in combinations such as: the lifeboat, lifeboat station, lifeboat crew.
Context around Lifeboat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 6 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lifeboat
- In this selection, "lifeboat" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, inshore, weather, oban, station, operations and crew stand out and add context to how "lifeboat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a 1901 lifeboat and a lifeboat operations manager. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lifeboat" sits close to words such as advantageous, airstrike and aligning, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lifeboat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Next door is The Old Lifeboat House, housing a 1901 lifeboat. (11 words)
The lifeboat station is hosting Lifeboat Day from 10am until 4pm. (11 words)
Seventy eight of those were on the inshore lifeboat and 34 on the all-weather lifeboat. (16 words)
Mike is currently the Lifeboat Press Officer, a member of the local Visits Team, Education Team and Community Safety Team, and as a new task this year has also become a Visits Guide at the Inshore Lifeboat Centre in East Cowes. (41 words)
Volunteer lifeboat operations manager Steve Clarke presented the medals to the volunteers who were members of the lifeboat crew with five years of service at the time of the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in May 2023. (40 words)
Cal Reed, Aberdeen Lifeboat’s coxswain, said: “We took the surfers onboard Bon Accord and our casualty care-qualified crew confirmed they were none the worse for their experience – but grateful for the offer of assistance from the lifeboat. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
A lifeboat operations manager at Porthdinllaen’s lifeboat station, Kenneth has been awarded a BEM for “services to maritime safety”.
Hays saved Lady by wrapping the dog in a blanket when she went aboard lifeboat number 7. It's likely the lifeboat crew thought the bundled dog was a baby.
Immediately after, Reverend Kevin Lake led the service of dedication, a symbolic gesture of blessing and acceptance, trailed by a heartfelt thank-you speech from Bill Kitchen, the lifeboat operations manager at Barry Dock Lifeboat Station.
Next door is The Old Lifeboat House, housing a 1901 lifeboat.
Seventy eight of those were on the inshore lifeboat and 34 on the all-weather lifeboat.
The lifeboat station is hosting Lifeboat Day from 10am until 4pm.
Volunteer lifeboat operations manager Steve Clarke presented the medals to the volunteers who were members of the lifeboat crew with five years of service at the time of the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in May 2023.
Cal Reed, Aberdeen Lifeboat’s coxswain, said: “We took the surfers onboard Bon Accord and our casualty care-qualified crew confirmed they were none the worse for their experience – but grateful for the offer of assistance from the lifeboat.
Oban Lifeboat Station is one of the busiest all weather lifeboat stations in the UK, operating 24 hours a day and 365 days a year.
Posting on the Arbroath Lifeboat Facebook page, Deputy Launching Authority Peter Anelli praised the actions of the lifeboat volunteers.
A spokesman for the lifeboat crew said during an incident yesterday in which a man entered the water from the Tay Road Bridge, and was met by emergency services including the lifeboat, Scottish Ambulance Service and Police Scotland.
Mike is currently the Lifeboat Press Officer, a member of the local Visits Team, Education Team and Community Safety Team, and as a new task this year has also become a Visits Guide at the Inshore Lifeboat Centre in East Cowes.
After recovering the Y boat and being released from service, the lifeboat returned to station, arriving back at 12.48pm.
A further update from HM Coastguard suggested that the yacht was still secured on a mooring, so the lifeboat was stood down and returned to Greenfield for recovery.
At 6:15am the Oban lifeboat launched again to the casualty vessel and with the assistance of their XP boat, they established a tow.
At Foxholes Car Park - located by a cafe kiosk and the new lifeboat station - it is proposed that all cubicles will be unisex with baby change units in each.
Bembridge Lifeboat open day runs from 11am until 4pm on Sunday, August 20 and is a chance to meet the crew, see the station and enjoy a cake or two, to help raise funds.
Brad Johnson, of Skegness Lifeboat Station, said “As we reach our off-peak season our lifeguards who have patrolled the beaches all summer long are now off duty.
Despite the challenging conditions, helm Martin Stokes and his crew, Craig Hopkins and Billy Brookes, responded rapidly, recovering the two casualties onto the D class inshore lifeboat (ILB).
Each lifeboat received three cases of condensed milk and six tins of biscuits, along with cigarettes and tobacco, the operation taking place when the ship was almost underwater.
Common combinations with lifeboat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: