A floating device designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy, to prevent 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.
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.
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.
6Julia was clutching the other one like a shipwreck victim clutching a life ring.
7Her arms looked very soft and round on the rim of the life ring.
8They found her rudder and a life ring.
9He looked down and saw Goddard and Karen Brooke clinging to the life ring right below them.
10Karen slipped out of the life ring.
11Maybe if he lay flat with the life ring under his back he would have enough buoyancy.
12A life ring and a single blue boot were also seen about 35km away on the island of Gajajima.
13Goddard didn't know how long they'd been struggling after the orange glow in the rain, dragging the life ring.
14He threw one leg over the rim of the life ring and stood vertically in the water astride it.
15He read in her eyes that the tale of their love was ended, and heard his future life ring hollow.
16If there's nobody there, I'll buy the company a new life ring, and Mrs. Brooke will give a cocktail party.'
Translations for life ring