life jacket
Example Sentences
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Looking like a life jacket thrown into a car compactor, the work weaves a floppy beam of hazard-orange steel around and through a menacing conglomeration of rusty metal scraps.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
"At this time, you know, the waves are massive, and I have no life jacket on. So anyway, I just keep swimming. I do breaststroke. I do freestyle. Survival backstroke."
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
"He swam, he reckons, the first two hours with a life jacket on," Bresland told national broadcaster ABC.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
"He swam in, he reckons, the first two hours with a life jacket on," he told ABC News.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026
The flippers and life jacket keep me floating on the surface and it only takes a few minutes for me to get used to breathing through the mask.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
