How to Use refloat in a Sentence

refloat

verb

• The ship was refloated and moved from the crash site on May 20.
  — Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 12 June 2024
• Officials still expect to refloat the ship within the next few days.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 14 May 2024
• Eight tugboats have been dispatched in an attempt to refloat the vessel.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
• At least eight tugboats have been brought in to reposition and refloat the vessel.
  — USA Today, 26 Mar. 2021
• Volunteers first managed to refloat the whales on Monday evening's high tide.
  — Nick Perry, Star Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• It was refloated and moved to the Port of Baltimore by five tugboats last month.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2024
• Efforts to refloat the boat and tow it to Sitka are ongoing, Gray said.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 2 June 2023
• Once the ship has been fully refloated, tugboats will pull the Dali to a Baltimore port.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 16 May 2024
• In the end, the heavens offered a helping hand when unusually high tides allowed teams to refloat the vessel.
  — Mirette Magdy, Fortune, 7 July 2021
• The next step is to refloat the Dali so that it can be guided to a nearby terminal at the port for temporary repairs.
  — Joel Rose, NPR, 14 May 2024
• The Egyptian official said tugboats hoped to refloat the ship and that the operation would take at least two days.
  — Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Mar. 2021
• The Kang Kon was refloated and launched again about a month later, and began sea trials earlier this month.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
• The ship is expected to be refloated and guided back to the Port of Baltimore in the coming days.
  — Lea Skene, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• Earlier this month, the largest part of the bridge span was demolished and the Dali was refloated and escorted back into port last week.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 27 May 2024
• That sad scenario is also a perfect opportunity to refloat an idea that needs to emerge in the rarefied Capitol air.
  — Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
• As the Dali, which rested on the bay bottom, was refloated and as wreckage was cleared from the shipping channel, the pipeline remained turned off.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2024
• One of the largest ships at sea is stranded sideways in one of the world’s key shipping canals, blocking millions of dollars in trade as frantic efforts to refloat it unfold.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• Attempts to refloat the vessel are underway, but Faba did not know when it's expected to be back underway.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2025
• At the same time, crews are working to remove some containers from the cargo ship Dali before lifting steel spans off its bow and refloating the vessel.
  — Lea Skene, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2024
• Sharp compares the refloating experience to whack-a-mole, rushing from dolphin to dolphin trying to keep them upright as the tide rushes back in.
  — Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 19 July 2024
• Despite the 30-degree angle, the vessel was said not to have touched the concrete walls and was successfully refloated.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2024
• Attempts to refloat the mammal with the help of police boats, excavators and inflatable boats had temporarily freed it.
  — ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
• Given the large number of distressed dolphins, the plan is to triage and support the animals before attempting to refloat and herd as many as possible.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 28 June 2024
• However, the division learned on Saturday that the boat had been refloated about 8 feet away from the stone, the department said.
  — Michelle Watson, CNN, 19 Mar. 2023
• Scientists and sailors have charted the changing tides for eons, so crews working to salvage the Ever Given would have known when to try and refloat the ship.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2021
• Freeing the ship from the bridge debris will ultimately lead to the Dali being refloated before moving it out of the way to restore traffic through the port.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 14 May 2024
• To refloat the ship carefully, crews will also have to conduct a dive survey, Unified Command said Wednesday.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
• After several days of dredging mud from around the hull, authorities made their first effort Tuesday to refloat the ship, working for hours, Reaves said.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
• The Dali is currently scheduled to be refloated during high tide on Tuesday, officials said Sunday.
  — CBS News, 13 May 2024
• Earlier, the canal authority had said in a statement that salvage crews were attempting to refloat the ship, with 10 tug boats being used to pull it from both front and back to try to extricate it.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 29 Mar. 2021