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

Bandleader Willie Colón, desperate to toss a life vest to the prized yet floundering singer, asked Panamanian singer-composer Rubén Blades to lend a song that could rescue Lavoe’s career.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

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

My chest was tight underneath the life vest, like the way it had felt at mealtimes lately when I was staring down a plate of food.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen