life preserver
Example Sentences
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From what we see of Scotty in flashbacks, he was a buoyant blond goofball — exactly the kind of guy that the apparently friendless and family-less Kenna would have clung to like a life preserver.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
I let myself play the victim twice — first of the debt itself, then of the life preserver tossed to bring me back onboard.
From Salon • May 11, 2025
Harris and his Commanders may be her life preserver — at a cost.
From Washington Times • Dec. 13, 2023
Divers found him about 30 minutes later after passersby called 911 and threw a life preserver in the water.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2022
Then she’d beg Dad to put on a life preserver.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
