life belt
Example Sentences
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Peter has a 7-month-old baby; Austin is giving his 3-year-old daughter a life belt for Christmas featuring doughnuts, ice cream and a soccer ball.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2015
Usual when growth happens it is for profit without growth of small business who really are the life belt to the citizens and environmentally bad.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2014
For other artists, Prozac has been a life belt thrown as they drowned in a sea of depression.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2013
My life belt was under my chair and I put it on from ground level.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Malone felt like a drowning sailor being thrown a life belt.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
