life preserver
Example Sentences
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From what we see of Scotty in flashbacks, he was a buoyant blond goofball — exactly the kind of guy that the apparently friendless and family-less Kenna would have clung to like a life preserver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
I let myself play the victim twice — first of the debt itself, then of the life preserver tossed to bring me back onboard.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
The measure “was simply a life preserver that was being thrown or could have been thrown to schools to stem the crisis,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Harris and his Commanders may be her life preserver — at a cost.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
I swarmed up him, over the life preserver, spongy with all its milkweed inside.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
