How to Use life preserver in a Sentence

life preserver

noun

• The guides cinch hard on the straps of life preservers.
  — Christopher Solomon, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Wood grain paint job with life preserver tires and palm frond canopy over the truck bed.
  — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 June 2024
• What appears to be a life preserver comes to Frank in the form of a song he and Sam have recorded.
  — Rick Bentley, kansascity, 14 June 2018
• There would be no life preserver cast to pull him ashore.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
• In 12 of the deaths, the victims were not wearing life preservers, Parker said.
  — John D. Simmons, charlotteobserver, 25 May 2018
• Others tried to swim for it in the icy water, with and without life preservers.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• There is a visual of this in the book when Diana finds one of these little life preservers.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• Police did not say whether the boys had been wearing life preservers.
  — Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, 5 June 2018
• Anderson said two life preservers were found on the beach.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
• If this is all hands on deck, somebody throw me a life preserver.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
• His life preserver was strapped on tight in case he was thrown overboard.
  — David Gardner, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Like adult PFDs, kids’ life preservers should fit snugly.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 9 Apr. 2020
• In the scene, Chan wears wearing a full suit with no life preserver for the cameras on the watercraft.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
• The exhibit features his watch, and the life preserver that his 18-year-old wife wore.
  — CBS News, 9 Dec. 2018
• Each floating octopus comes with three rings in the shape of a star, fish and life preserver.
  — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 24 Oct. 2022
• But all a life preserver does is help wearers stay afloat.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 4 Aug. 2021
• The phone becomes a life preserver in the most literal sense.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
• That’s me in the waves holding onto a surfboard like a life preserver.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 30 Nov. 2018
• No one was at the boat but 10 life preservers were spotted on the sand, OnScene reported.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2023
• The home's décor embraces the nautical theme and features life preservers, maps, a bell and, at one point, even a shark.
  — Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2018
• This weekly planner serves as a life preserver amid a sea of e-vites and reschedules, and does so in style too.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 19 Dec. 2019
• Those old orange life preservers were heavy, bulky, hot, and sticky, and many people would take them off after a while.
  — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
• Then Foy saw a woman face down in the water, wearing a life preserver.
  — Julie Watson, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
• The pill is a life preserver that doctors can throw to the 1,000-plus Americans drowning each day.
  — Marty Makary, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
• Passengers from a nearby boat then noticed her, threw her life preservers and jumped in to help her.
  — Eileen Reslen, Country Living, 23 July 2018
• But no need to invest in life preservers just yet, Parsons assured.
  — CBS News, 29 May 2023
• These are empirical life preservers that pull us out of the epistemic whirlpool.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• But injuries can't be used as a life preserver after eight years.
  — Star Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
• Drop him in the middle of the ocean without a life preserver, and Harden will find a way to exaggerate contact and get to the line.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• No life preserver was tossed Buehler’s way Thursday night.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024