Usage of "life preserver"

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

каталонский

Rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning.

Использование термина life preserver на английском

How much of a life preserver does your wired lifestyle really need? 
 Wired 

The body, limp and grayish, was suspended under the sodden life preserver. 
 Cry for the strangers 

They always hope someone'll come along and throw them a life preserver. 
 Once upon a time in America 

I held the sign in front of me like a life preserver. 
 Brains: a zombie memoir 

They obediently followed Larry's instructions and strapped on the life preserver vests. 
 Welcome to Camp Nightmare 

A life preserver, steel, as you see, and with a beautiful spring. 
 A Lost Leader 

Wakeley and Manfred Wallace fought each other for the lone life preserver. 
 Amagansett 

Sir Richard bent over him with the life preserver still in his hand. 
 Peter Ruff and the Double Four 

As we approached Carter turned superciliously, unbuttoning his bulky khaki life preserver jacket. 
 The War Terror 

Faith clung to decency like a life preserver in the storm. 
 Answered prayers 

Francesca was loosening a foam-ringed life preserver from its ties under the bow. 
 Torment 

Instead of a goofy life preserver, Craig says, he'll use water wings next time. 
 Reuters 

Harry dashed to the rail and seized the ring life preserver from its beckets. 
 Boy Scouts in Southern Waters; Or, Spaniard's Treasure Chest 

It's like drowning with a life preserver in my reach. 
 The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain 

I think so, now that I have the life preserver. 
 The Stolen Singer 

What a lucky thing it was Buster thought to tie that life preserver on. 
 Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise; or, The Dash for Dixie 

Translations for life preserver

каталонский

Значения термина life preserver на английском