flotation
Example Sentences
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That person, who eventually saved the dog, said White couldn’t hold onto a flotation device thrown to him and disappeared under the water in the Bailey Cove boat launch area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
AFP reporters saw hundreds of people -- men, women and children -- entering Ceuta, discarding flotation rings and clothes used in their crossing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Footage showed migrants swimming and using inflatable rings and other flotation devices to swim to Ceuta on Thursday, while others ran through a gate in the border fence.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Besides the legal question, the forecasts are more ambitious than made by underwriters of the flotation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
It would play a double role: it would provide extra flotation to compensate for the vertical weight of the mast, and it would make for a slightly raised seat for me.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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