How to Use buoy in a Sentence

buoy

1 of 2 noun
  • The buoys did the work for them.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Or will their new depth buoy them?
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Grab a kickboard, a pull buoy, and aqua weights for this one.
    — Mallory Creveling, Women's Health, 16 June 2023
  • But don't worry, there's enough room on a buoy for the both of them.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Here's hoping this giant buoy gets it right.
    — New Atlas, 19 May 2026
  • The two paddled to a buoy, whose line led to the inky depths below.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The suspects were wearing the same clothes as seen in the video from the buoy.
    — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Zones on the water are marked with visible buoys.
    — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The buoys measured wind speed, wind direction and wave height.
    — Carol Thompson The Detroit News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Picture a calm, flat ocean dotted with countless buoys.
    — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • There’s even duck boats now, albeit with goons impaled by an anchor and buoy.
    — Mark Kennedy, Boston Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
  • To get the canoe up to speed for the crash, it was hooked to a truck that could pull it into the buoy.
    — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Anchors and buoys hang from the walls, among the rest of the navy and white details which trim the snug space.
    — Becky Duffett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • But during that process, part of the fishing gear broke off, along with the tracking buoy.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • And so then what are Texas lawyers arguing now in defense of these buoys?
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Migrants walk by a string of buoys placed along the Rio Grande border.
    — Colin Sheeley, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The plan recommended it be marked with buoys placed in the water.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The big buoy came to be because pranksters were forever stealing the old sign.
    — Jeff Kleinman, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Jan. 2022
  • You're not restricted to just that one spot where the buoy is located.
    — Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Artisan jobs and blue-collar work may be a buoy from the headwinds.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Can’t wait to hear how these new kids on the block buoy the book vibes into 2026.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Drones and buoy cameras recorded live views of the on-target splashdown.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2026
  • The man found by the buoys was from Mexico and is believed to have been dead for some time.
    — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The city has not decided if both buoys will remain after the repairs.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The buoys are used to detect submarines and other objects in the water.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The sensor and the buoy were connected by a thousand-metre-long wire.
    — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • That's the average of the highest one-third of waves being measured at the buoy.
    — John Bacon, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
  • There’s also a four-car garage, plus a private deep-water pier, boat hoist, jet ski platform and two buoys.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Liu’s team made a publicly available dashboard to display the data from those buoys.
    — Alex Harris august 8, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2025
  • If the buoy fell or the castaway stepped off the perch, they would be eliminated from the challenge.
    — Ben Flanagan | [email protected], al, 21 Apr. 2022

buoy

2 of 2 verb
  • The tax breaks should help to buoy the economy.
  • Don’t buoy them with your body.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
  • Playing with Jones has buoyed Brown.
    — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The hint of an end in sight has buoyed Wall Street the past two days.
    — Jon Gambrell, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • His free-throw stroke looked good, buoyed by sinking all but two of his eight attempts.
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 12 Oct. 2025
  • That set may be buoyed by all the excitement around Stans.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Perhaps this is buoyed by his own role in fighting climate change.
    — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
  • No matter how your day started, this hike will buoy your spirits.
    — Jim Holden, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Air channels also buoy the leaves, holding them up to the light.
    — David George Haskell, Big Think, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Since the change in format, the league has been buoyed by the early results.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
  • From there, Childs saw food as medicine that buoyed her through treatments and surgeries.
    — Bridget Fogarty, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The union also has been buoyed by a nationwide rise in union activism.
    — Meg James and Wendy Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Wealthy households also buoyed the housing market and new car sales over the past year.
    — Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The win even buoyed hopes that stalled Biden nominations would now have the votes to pass.
    — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2023
  • People in Taiwan felt buoyed by those statements.
    — Michelle Kuo, The Dial, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Ecuador will be buoyed by its 2-1 win over Germany in its final group game.
    — David Hickey, NBC news, 30 June 2026
  • Locals buoy new restaurants in unique and meaningful ways.
    — Andrea Strong, Bon Appetit Magazine, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Rub a lemon peel on the rim of the glass to buoy the zippy flavor, then drop it in as a pretty garnish.
    — Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 14 June 2026
  • The Valkyries led by three at halftime, buoyed by 12 first-half points from Charles.
    — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Research suggests that some of Méliès’s work had been buoyed up by a boniment.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Even a slightly rusty Wiggins should bolster them on both ends and buoy their title odds.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Mowry is also feeling sad, but his feelings are buoyed by the warm response from patrons.
    — Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The number keeps going up, which has a buoying effect on markets that is, in the short term, good.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The rookie finished with 27 points to buoy the Sky offense.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026
  • The fact that the lovers conform to a type, in their sighing and gasping, seems to buoy up, not to pop, the erotic mood.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • This latest victory, the players agreed, will help buoy the future.
    — Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The ramp-up has been welcome among exhibitors looking for more breadth and depth of content to buoy the box office.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The Tribune secured 17 awards, buoyed by 11 first-place awards.
    — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Fiscal stimulus helped to buoy spending in the first quarter.
    — ABC News, 3 May 2026
  • The wine market has been buoyed by affluent buyers willing to pay more per bottle.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 15 May 2026

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