life preserver

Example Sentences

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I let myself play the victim twice — first of the debt itself, then of the life preserver tossed to bring me back onboard.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

Maybe, but Celine Dion wasn’t about to throw them a life preserver.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

I’ve never forgotten that day, and I should have hung a life preserver on my office wall as a stark reminder.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2023

What’s the likelihood of those owners giving Skipper Dan a financial life preserver with new investors?

From Washington Times • Nov. 3, 2022

Some crazy old lady rants stuff I know not to be true— and yet I choose to hold on to her words like a drowning man to a life preserver.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben