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
Harris and his Commanders may be her life preserver — at a cost.
From Washington Times • Dec. 13, 2023
Standing next to the wreckage on the beach, a reporter for Italian RAI state TV noted a life preserver bearing the word “Smyrna,” a Turkish port also known as Izmir.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2023
Isn’t it finally time for that life preserver?
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2022
Some crazy old lady rants stuff I know not to be true— and yet I choose to hold on to her words like a drowning man to a life preserver.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
