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

If Dopamine, with its low, labor-of-love operating costs, proves economically sustainable, it could be a life preserver in a perfect storm.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2023

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

From Washington Times • Nov. 3, 2022

Divers found him about 30 minutes later after passersby called 911 and threw a life preserver in the water.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2022

Mrs. Cranston, bigger than he, in a gigantic feathered hat, her squirrel-skin cloak, and over that her life preserver, stretched to its limits.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck