life vest

Example Sentences

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I’m a hospice physician, and it’s at junctures like this that I can offer a life vest that completely changes the end-of-life experience.

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2025

Winter had put a life vest on the dog resembling a shark, with a dorsal fin protruding from its back.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

They dressed her younger brother in a life vest and laughed.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2023

Parents have had that big message that childhood success is about getting a child into a good school that can act as a life vest in a sea of economic uncertainty.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2023

And then there are some things—an orange life vest, that one long paddle, a pair of plastic goggles, a lantern with cracked glass—I don’t know how to categorize.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy