raft
noun
a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials.
rafted
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past participleof raft.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof raft.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
raftnouna more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials.
Example Sentences
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These vessels were anchored and at times rafted together waiting for mother ships to come and be refilled around the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex on the Malaysian side of the Singapore Strait.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
However, our drilling efforts recovered the first cores of this material after it has spent tens of millions of years being rafted across the seafloor as Earth's tectonic plates spread apart.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2025
Ann Willis, California regional director for the environmentalist group American Rivers, said that when she’s rafted on the Klamath previously, the water downstream of the dams has been warm, green and smelly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024
In Wyoming, the Thomases fished, rafted on the Snake River and sat by a campfire overlooking the Teton Range with the other couples.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2023
I still couldn’t catch the old tiger, so I rafted to shore and got Mr. Jacket.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
