How to Use life preserver in a Sentence

life preserver

noun
  • Wood grain paint job with life preserver tires and palm frond canopy over the truck bed.
    — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 June 2024
  • If this is all hands on deck, somebody throw me a life preserver.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
  • Police did not say whether the boys had been wearing life preservers.
    — Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, 5 June 2018
  • His life preserver was strapped on tight in case he was thrown overboard.
    — David Gardner, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Others tried to swim for it in the icy water, with and without life preservers.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • But injuries can't be used as a life preserver after eight years.
    — Star Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021
  • That’s me in the waves holding onto a surfboard like a life preserver.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Each floating octopus comes with three rings in the shape of a star, fish and life preserver.
    — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 24 Oct. 2022
  • But no need to invest in life preservers just yet, Parsons assured.
    — CBS News, 29 May 2023
  • There is a visual of this in the book when Diana finds one of these little life preservers.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 13 Nov. 2019
  • These are empirical life preservers that pull us out of the epistemic whirlpool.
    — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Passengers from a nearby boat then noticed her, threw her life preservers and jumped in to help her.
    — Eileen Reslen, Country Living, 23 July 2018
  • Maybe, but Celine Dion wasn’t about to throw them a life preserver.
    — Lorraine Ali, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The phone becomes a life preserver in the most literal sense.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Those old orange life preservers were heavy, bulky, hot, and sticky, and many people would take them off after a while.
    — Ben Romans, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
  • This weekly planner serves as a life preserver amid a sea of e-vites and reschedules, and does so in style too.
    — Cady Lang, Time, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Then Foy saw a woman face down in the water, wearing a life preserver.
    — Julie Watson, Star Tribune, 5 May 2021
  • Lenny wasn’t jumping off this boat without a life preserver, or at least a pair of flotation devices.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 May 2022
  • Bring a canoe, kayak or stand-up paddleboard, along with a life preserver and whistle.
    — Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 May 2025
  • The exhibit features his watch, and the life preserver that his 18-year-old wife wore.
    — CBS News, 9 Dec. 2018
  • Zosia compares it to seeing someone drowning in a lake and throwing them a life preserver.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
  • In 12 of the deaths, the victims were not wearing life preservers, Parker said.
    — John D. Simmons, charlotteobserver, 25 May 2018
  • The home's décor embraces the nautical theme and features life preservers, maps, a bell and, at one point, even a shark.
    — Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Wyck briefly gets lost at sea with a life preserver, but eventually returns to the boat unscathed.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 27 May 2026
  • In the scene, Chan wears wearing a full suit with no life preserver for the cameras on the watercraft.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Investigators observed pool toys and pool noodles, but no life preservers in the area.
    — Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Videos show Robbins jumping from the boat and swimming in the water with a life preserver nearby.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 29 May 2023
  • But especially now that the Steelers are splashing about in search of a life preserver, why not dive?
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Sport or recreational equipment like ballet and tap shoes, cleats, gloves, life preservers, mouth guards, roller and ice skates, ski boots, wetsuits and more.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
  • No one was at the boat but 10 life preservers were spotted on the sand, OnScene reported.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2023

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