raft
noun
a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials.
had rafted
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past perfectof raft.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Chris Brown, co-owner of the rafting business Whitewater Voyages, looked out over a boulder-strewn part of the stream where he had rafted a month earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2025
Interviews with two of them, both Mexican, found they had rafted across the Rio Grande and then one of them called a driver, whom they identified as David Herculano-Reyna.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2019
Norma Leticia Ulloa-Montoya had rafted across the Rio Grande a day earlier with her two sons, ages 6 and 9, who were then taken by Border Patrol agents.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2018
Before the water rose, Lee and friends had rafted the wild river.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 21, 2015
The 329th bridgehead was severely counterattacked for three days but held firm, partly because we had rafted all our antitank guns across the Elbe.
From Time Magazine Archive
