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Meanings of lifebuoy in English
A floating device designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy, to prevent drowning.
Synonyms
Examples for "buoy"
Examples for "buoy"
1
Any positive reaction by global markets would almost certainly buoy the Gulf.
2
However, with so much bad news forecast, any positive may buoy investors.
3
When I had the sails set we were passing the sea buoy.
4
With the sunrise the search for the buoy was begun in earnest.
5
Marks: Run 5 miles SW. from the whistling buoy off Cape Elizabeth.
1
This critical lifesaver for families is coming not a minute too soon.
2
And they had to reach for the only answer, their only lifesaver.
3
Central to the entire Dr Dolittle project was the Aga, the lifesaver.
4
Another lazy girl lifesaver that runs out too fast in my house.
5
Alves reached for his ankle, praying that his lifesaver was still there.
1
In 2009, the European Union is once again perceived as a lifebelt.
2
These ecosystems have been described as the planet's lifebelt, and with good reason.
3
Was it really only the name on the lifebelt that made the difference?
4
Until the shipwreck comes, no man puts on the lifebelt in his cabin.
5
Crawshay appeared, hugging his lifebelt, on which he seated himself gingerly.
1
It has been hailed by the publishing industry as a potential life-saver.
2
The volunteer life-saver was cheered by the passengers as he went over.
3
There is to be a wreck here; is there to be a life-saver?
4
Playcentre says a four-million-dollar government bail-out is a life-saver for the parent-led early childhood organisation.
5
An ocean-going merchant-ship: a life-saver to a poorer man.
1
She tossed a lifering after him, saw him come up and catch his stroke-asshe tapped the deck with her stick-thethree doubles sharply....
1
A life belt is hurled from a great height, falls slowly, slowly.
2
Dr. Malone felt like a drowning sailor being thrown a life belt.
3
He was supported by a life belt carelessly strapped around him.
4
I'm pretty good at it, and we'll have a life belt.
5
So picking up the two cats and a life belt, she hurried on deck.
1
But her vanity was like a life buoy to her sinking hopes.
2
I grabbed Grover and hauled him over to a life buoy.
3
He would be her life buoy in a rocky sea.
4
He would carry it the entire evening, as if it were a life buoy.
5
A bridle was rigged from the spanker boom and made fast to a life buoy.
1
How much of a life preserver does your wired lifestyle really need?
2
The body, limp and grayish, was suspended under the sodden life preserver.
3
They always hope someone'll come along and throw them a life preserver.
4
I held the sign in front of me like a life preserver.
5
They obediently followed Larry's instructions and strapped on the life preserver vests.
1
I ran and got a life ring and threw it at him.
2
Rae, there's a life ring on either side of the cockpit.
3
A life ring, normally kept at the pier, had been removed by vandals.
4
Asbury threw a life ring to starboard and began playing out the rope.
5
A fisherman picked up a life ring and a rudder floating off Halibut Point.
1
More importantly though, a lost ring buoy can also mean a life lost.
2
"I see them," Jack answered, throwing the ring buoy with true aim.
3
Dublin City Council is turning to the Internet of Things (IoT) to solve the issue of stolen life-saving ring buoys.
4
"Throw me a ring buoy!"
Usage of lifebuoy in English
1
Oeberg said he survived after finding a lifebuoy floating in the water.
2
Away went the captain, and in a few minutes back came the lifebuoy.
3
Then lifebuoy posts at drunken angles, newly bereft of their rings.
4
Then the stout Coastguardsman absolutely lifted him into the lifebuoy.
5
The lifebuoy was thrown, and, looking astern, I saw the man had caught it.
6
They both hung on securely to the lifebuoy, and felt little or no exhaustion.
7
A lifebuoy has become the back of a chair.
8
This unfortunate had only a lifebuoy to aid him on a fifteen-mile swim to shore.
9
Tarpaulins and a lifebuoy are strapped to the railings.
10
Reflexively jumping into pleasure like a lifebuoy, as a human did, what could one expect?
11
A signal having been again given with the lantern, the lifebuoy was drawn swiftly to land.
12
She was discovered on Monday evening in 3ft of water, and a lifebuoy was found close by.
13
The hawser is a thick rope, or cable, to which the lifebuoy is suspended when in action.
14
A lifebuoy was thrown to the victim, but he was unable to reach it due to strong currents.
15
The lifebuoy had been let go.
16
Our hero seized the two little girls and put them into the bag which hung from the circular lifebuoy.
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