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
A life jacket worn by a Titanic survivor is to be auctioned for up to £350,000.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 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
"The brave fella thought he's not going to make it with a life jacket on, so he ditched it, and he swam the next two hours without a life jacket."
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026
She tried not to think of the extra weight she carried—the parachute pack and the inflatable life jacket over her clothing.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
