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Meanings of life buoy in английском

каталонский
salvavides
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A floating device designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy, to prevent drowning.

      salvavides
      Usage of life buoy in английском
      1
      But her vanity was like a life buoy to her sinking hopes.
      Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School / The Merry Doings of ...
      2
      I grabbed Grover and hauled him over to a life buoy.
      The Lightning Thief
      3
      He would be her life buoy in a rocky sea.
      Pretty Little Secrets
      4
      He would carry it the entire evening, as if it were a life buoy.
      Amberville
      5
      A bridle was rigged from the spanker boom and made fast to a life buoy.
      Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"
      6
      He seemed to cling to it as a drowning sailor clings to a life buoy.
      South Sea Tales
      7
      She had literally seized the package, as though she were drowning and grasping at a life buoy.
      The War Terror
      8
      The divers searched underwater caves in Dunlough Bay and a location around a life buoy for more drugs over the weekend.
      The Irish Times
      9
      Somebody threw a life buoy over the side, and at the same instant the second mate's voice came aft, ringing and peremptory:-
      Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories / Chosen and Edited By ...
      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.
      Lola Carlyle Reveals All
      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.
      The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
      12
      A single bound carried him to one of the night life buoys.
      Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis / Or, Two Midshipmen as N...
      13
      Life buoys were thrown and ropes lowered, but only a portion could be rescued.
      History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's...
      14
      We've a couple of life buoys, too.
      Round the World in Seven Days
      15
      He was overboard, after his classmate, ere the marine had had time to leap to the life buoys.
      Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis / Or, Two Midshipmen as N...
      16
      Soon the Southern Cross was alongside and a dozen ropes and life buoys were hastily cast over the side.
      The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic
      Translations for life buoy
      каталонский
      salvavides