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Meanings of life buoy in английском
каталонский
salvavides 
A floating device designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy, to prevent drowning.
Usage of life buoy in английском
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.
6
He seemed to cling to it as a drowning sailor clings to a life buoy.
7
She had literally seized the package, as though she were drowning and grasping at a life buoy.
8
The divers searched underwater caves in Dunlough Bay and a location around a life buoy for more drugs over the weekend.
9
Somebody threw a life buoy over the side, and at the same instant the second mate's voice came aft, ringing and peremptory:-
10
With Baby in one arm, he moved to the galley, where he'd gather the survival kit, life buoy, and folded self-inflating raft.
11
Any boy may be able to make, for himself or friends, a life buoy for emergency use in a rowboat or for learning to swim.
12
A single bound carried him to one of the night life buoys.
13
Life buoys were thrown and ropes lowered, but only a portion could be rescued.
14
We've a couple of life buoys, too.
15
He was overboard, after his classmate, ere the marine had had time to leap to the life buoys.
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Soon the Southern Cross was alongside and a dozen ropes and life buoys were hastily cast over the side.