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
"The water is safe when there's a lifeguard and you have a life jacket on," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
The youngster said he started heading for shore with just his life jacket but later abandoned it to swim unencumbered.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
"At this time, you know, the waves are massive, and I have no life jacket on. So anyway, I just keep swimming. I do breaststroke. I do freestyle. Survival backstroke."
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
But she shook her head, holding up Phoebe’s bright blue coat and her life jacket.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
