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
Albadri told the court: "You put your life on the line. Everybody is scared, shouting, fighting. The life jackets is just for a few people, my life jacket I gave to a child."
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
It is the only life jacket from the Titanic to be sold at auction in the 114 years since the ship sank, going under the hammer at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 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
That was when she remembered that she’d left her life jacket on the ship.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
