A floating device designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy, to prevent drowning.
Rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning.
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Examples for "buoy"
Examples for "buoy"
1Any positive reaction by global markets would almost certainly buoy the Gulf.
2However, with so much bad news forecast, any positive may buoy investors.
3When I had the sails set we were passing the sea buoy.
4With the sunrise the search for the buoy was begun in earnest.
5Marks: Run 5 miles SW. from the whistling buoy off Cape Elizabeth.
1This critical lifesaver for families is coming not a minute too soon.
2And they had to reach for the only answer, their only lifesaver.
3Central to the entire Dr Dolittle project was the Aga, the lifesaver.
4Another lazy girl lifesaver that runs out too fast in my house.
5Alves reached for his ankle, praying that his lifesaver was still there.
1In 2009, the European Union is once again perceived as a lifebelt.
2These ecosystems have been described as the planet's lifebelt, and with good reason.
3Was it really only the name on the lifebelt that made the difference?
4Until the shipwreck comes, no man puts on the lifebelt in his cabin.
5Crawshay appeared, hugging his lifebelt, on which he seated himself gingerly.
1Oeberg said he survived after finding a lifebuoy floating in the water.
2Away went the captain, and in a few minutes back came the lifebuoy.
3Then lifebuoy posts at drunken angles, newly bereft of their rings.
4Then the stout Coastguardsman absolutely lifted him into the lifebuoy.
5The lifebuoy was thrown, and, looking astern, I saw the man had caught it.
1It has been hailed by the publishing industry as a potential life-saver.
2The volunteer life-saver was cheered by the passengers as he went over.
3There is to be a wreck here; is there to be a life-saver?
4Playcentre says a four-million-dollar government bail-out is a life-saver for the parent-led early childhood organisation.
5An ocean-going merchant-ship: a life-saver to a poorer man.
1She tossed a lifering after him, saw him come up and catch his stroke-asshe tapped the deck with her stick-thethree doubles sharply....
1A life belt is hurled from a great height, falls slowly, slowly.
2Dr. Malone felt like a drowning sailor being thrown a life belt.
3He was supported by a life belt carelessly strapped around him.
4I'm pretty good at it, and we'll have a life belt.
5So picking up the two cats and a life belt, she hurried on deck.
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.
1I ran and got a life ring and threw it at him.
2Rae, there's a life ring on either side of the cockpit.
3A life ring, normally kept at the pier, had been removed by vandals.
4Asbury threw a life ring to starboard and began playing out the rope.
5A fisherman picked up a life ring and a rudder floating off Halibut Point.
1How much of a life preserver does your wired lifestyle really need?
2The body, limp and grayish, was suspended under the sodden life preserver.
3They always hope someone'll come along and throw them a life preserver.
4I held the sign in front of me like a life preserver.
5They obediently followed Larry's instructions and strapped on the life preserver vests.
6A life preserver, steel, as you see, and with a beautiful spring.
7Wakeley and Manfred Wallace fought each other for the lone life preserver.
8Sir Richard bent over him with the life preserver still in his hand.
9As we approached Carter turned superciliously, unbuttoning his bulky khaki life preserver jacket.
10Faith clung to decency like a life preserver in the storm.
11Francesca was loosening a foam-ringed life preserver from its ties under the bow.
12Instead of a goofy life preserver, Craig says, he'll use water wings next time.
13Harry dashed to the rail and seized the ring life preserver from its beckets.
14It's like drowning with a life preserver in my reach.
15I think so, now that I have the life preserver.
16What a lucky thing it was Buster thought to tie that life preserver on.
Translations for life preserver