A floating device designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy, to prevent drowning.
1But her vanity was like a life buoy to her sinking hopes.
2I grabbed Grover and hauled him over to a life buoy.
3He would be her life buoy in a rocky sea.
4He would carry it the entire evening, as if it were a life buoy.
5A bridle was rigged from the spanker boom and made fast to a life buoy.
6He seemed to cling to it as a drowning sailor clings to a life buoy.
7She had literally seized the package, as though she were drowning and grasping at a life buoy.
8The divers searched underwater caves in Dunlough Bay and a location around a life buoy for more drugs over the weekend.
9Somebody threw a life buoy over the side, and at the same instant the second mate's voice came aft, ringing and peremptory:-
10With Baby in one arm, he moved to the galley, where he'd gather the survival kit, life buoy, and folded self-inflating raft.
11Any boy may be able to make, for himself or friends, a life buoy for emergency use in a rowboat or for learning to swim.
12A single bound carried him to one of the night life buoys.
13Life buoys were thrown and ropes lowered, but only a portion could be rescued.
14We've a couple of life buoys, too.
15He was overboard, after his classmate, ere the marine had had time to leap to the life buoys.
16Soon the Southern Cross was alongside and a dozen ropes and life buoys were hastily cast over the side.
Translations for life buoy