flotation bags

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bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea

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Words nearby flotation bags

floss hole, Flossie, flossy, flotage, flotation, flotation bags, flotation method, flotation tank, flote grass, flotel, flotilla

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Like drawing tattoos, sewing earmuffs, or fashioning model airplanes from old chip bags?
How a ‘Real Housewife’ Survives Prison: ‘I Don’t See [Teresa Giudice] Having a Cakewalk Here’|Michael Howard|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.
‘We Out Here’: Inside the New Black Travel Movement|Charlise Ferguson|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Picking up cans and bags out of the bin and throwing them back, over and over.
The Stacks: A Chicken Dinner That Mends Your Heart|Pete Dexter|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Available at La Boîte SHOLDIT Clutch Wrap Purse, $70 We can all agree the dorky passport holders and money bags have got to go.
The Daily Beast’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: For the Anthony Bourdain in Your Life|Allison McNearney|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

This leaves Southwest, a serious competitor, as the only domestic carrier left able to claim “bags fly free.”
Flying Coach Is the New Hell: How Airlines Engineer You Out of Room|Clive Irving|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Squinty cuddled down in the basket of the balloon, between two bags full of something, and shivered.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
Old Olly's head's leveler than this mountain-side, even if his mouth is mealier 'n his own flour bags.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond
Her money-bags had been filled in Manchester, and from time to time in her history you are reminded of this circumstance.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920|Various
They gathered handfuls and helped their mothers fill baskets and skin bags.
The Later Cave-Men|Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
Strong canvas bags, of smaller size, are very convenient for subdivision and arrangement.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King

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