How to Use safety in a Sentence

safety

1 of 2 noun
  • They were led to safety by the rescuers.
  • The changes were made in the interest of public safety.
  • I'm worried about the safety of the people who were left behind.
  • The car has been redesigned for improved safety.
  • She was only a mile from the safety of her home when the accident occurred.
  • The toys are inspected for safety.
  • The injured hiker was finally able to reach safety.
  • We were reluctant to leave the relative safety of our hotel.
  • He made some suggestions about how to improve airline safety.
  • But that isn’t just a safety threat.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Those traits are enough to be a good safety.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Oct. 2025
  • To be a child is to yearn for safety and a world that makes sense.
    — John Devore, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2026
  • These young states wanted to err on the side of safety.
    — Michael Golden, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The crash rate with a safety driver should be very low.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Comfort and safety are locked in as well.
    — New Atlas, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Daly is concerned for her own safety, too.
    — Liz Kreutz, NBC news, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Share slowly, and let safety shape the talk.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2026
  • Brown can play safety and nickel.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 20 June 2026
  • Your ethics, your safety, your future health?
    — Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Even at the time, some felt the ban was more about politics than safety.
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
  • No one should have to choose between safety and survival.
    — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2026
  • If safety is the goal, trust is the mechanism.
    — Natasha Dartigue, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2026
  • Just a thought with a simple fix to at least get some training in bike safety.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026
  • Once the kitten was close enough to the surface, she was pulled to safety.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • How do parents talk to children about gun safety?
    — Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 June 2026
  • The project will improve safety and repair roads and bridges.
    — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • There will be music, arts, safety workshops and bike tune-ups.
    — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Do your own safety checks, as screws and fasteners can loosen over time with use.
    — Devonne Goode, Parents, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This means their quality and safety can vary.
    — Kirstyn Hill, Health, 27 Feb. 2026
  • In that case, the car would have no safety driver and this would make a crash more likely.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

safety

2 of 2 verb
  • Willis was able to boot the ball away to safety some 40 yards off his line.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2023
  • To bring Shane back to the building is a risk to safety for all.
    — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Is there a place that my boys could safety watch the construction trucks?
    — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Ben got the clients to safety on a rock in the middle of the river that hippos couldn’t climb.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • One video showed the party leader being helped to safety.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Vonn Bell has been described as someone able to play either safety role.
    — NOLA.com, 20 May 2017
  • So will safety Reed Blankenship’s.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Rescue workers pulled people to safety from the flood waters.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Rams safety Taylor Rapp goes through a training camp practice.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Sailors were tossed or forced to jump into the oily muck below, and Potts and his fellow sailors pulled some to safety in their boat.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Or safety Bennett Williams or center Alex Forsyth (for the third straight game).
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2021
  • So could safety Derwin James — who missed last year’s game with an injury — on defense or special teams.
    — Jake Lourim, The Courier-Journal, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Kulig jumped off the platform to lift the man to safety with others rushing over to help 60 seconds before a train raced through.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 15 July 2017
  • Vaccaro can play either safety position and at 27 years old remains in the prime of his career.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Lawmakers put on gas masks and crawled under seats before officers whisked them to safety out the back door without a moment to spare.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • The boy can be seen falling to the ground while his desperate mother races to her child’s defense by picking him up and scooping him to safety inside the store.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The mother is then seen in footage from the officer’s body camera ducking and whisking her children to safety as the officer calls for back up.
    — Amy Simonson, CNN, 28 June 2023
  • Burkhead was on his way to a big gain off a screen pass when Bills safety Jordan Poyer caught him from behind and stripped the ball.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2019
  • There are dangerous blind spots, gaps in logic and safety the size of the Ohio State offensive line, but nobody wants to hear that.
    — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Maks is now back in Ukraine, where his orphanage's director has moved him to relatively safety in the country's west.
    — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • These smaller rocket motors would be used to power a crew to safety away from the main Falcon rocket if something were to go wrong during a launch.
    — Hailey Rose McLaughlin, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2019
  • Amos remains a free agent — and the team has given his jersey number, 31, to safety James Wiggins.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2023
  • With new coach Jonathan Gannon taking over, Simmons asked to be moved to safety full-time, and his request was granted.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • His mother, Crystal Waddel, told the news station that her son's actions gave the 6-year-old boy enough time to run to safety himself.
    — Fox News, 25 July 2019
  • Nova Scotia officials asked people in the province to stay off the roads so crews could safety remove trees and debris and restore power.
    — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Rams safety Taylor Rapp sprints during a training camp session on July 29.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Desai also helped safety Eddie Jackson to a pair of Pro Bowl seasons under his tutelage.
    — cleveland, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Bethel Search and Rescue member Tom Martini was one of the people who helped get the rest of the family to safety that night.
    — Anna Rose MacArthur, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2018
  • This writer called a Wall Street prime mover in conducting people to safety on the morning no one will forget, Frank Bisignano.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 July 2023
  • In a dramatic rescue caught on camera, a Coast Guard helicopter crew was able to get Leo to safety and reunited him with his owners.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2024

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