A floating device designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy, to prevent drowning.
Rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning.
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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 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.
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 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 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.
6 A life preserver , steel, as you see, and with a beautiful spring.
7 Wakeley and Manfred Wallace fought each other for the lone life preserver .
8 Sir Richard bent over him with the life preserver still in his hand.
9 As we approached Carter turned superciliously, unbuttoning his bulky khaki life preserver jacket.
10 Faith clung to decency like a life preserver in the storm.
11 Francesca was loosening a foam-ringed life preserver from its ties under the bow.
12 Instead of a goofy life preserver , Craig says, he'll use water wings next time.
13 Harry dashed to the rail and seized the ring life preserver from its beckets.
14 It's like drowning with a life preserver in my reach.
15 I think so, now that I have the life preserver .
16 What a lucky thing it was Buster thought to tie that life preserver on.
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