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
Across from a donkey stable, a pile of trash had rafted up against a prickly pear cactus, which got Kamal started again.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2019
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
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
