life preserver
Example Sentences
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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
The measure “was simply a life preserver that was being thrown or could have been thrown to schools to stem the crisis,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024
Harris and his Commanders may be her life preserver — at a cost.
From Washington Times • Dec. 13, 2023
Lange: We were shooting the title shots for the life preserver at the start of the show.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2022
Mrs. Cranston, bigger than he, in a gigantic feathered hat, her squirrel-skin cloak, and over that her life preserver, stretched to its limits.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
