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 has been sold at auction to a collector for £670,000.
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
"He swam, he reckons, the first two hours with a life jacket on," Bresland told national broadcaster ABC.
From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026
I noticed an orange whistle dangling from the life jacket.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
