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
He was not wearing a life jacket at the time, police said.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
The youngster said he started heading for shore with just his life jacket but later abandoned it to swim unencumbered.
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
I slip off my life jacket and put Cocoa in my backpack.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
