life jacket
Example Sentences
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Looking like a life jacket thrown into a car compactor, the work weaves a floppy beam of hazard-orange steel around and through a menacing conglomeration of rusty metal scraps.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said the life jacket was an "incredibly iconic and poignant item with a superlative provenance".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
"The water is safe when there's a lifeguard and you have a life jacket on," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
"He swam, he reckons, the first two hours with a life jacket on," Bresland told national broadcaster ABC.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
I got my life jacket on, but so what?
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
