life buoy

noun

1. any of variously formed buoyant devices for supporting a person fallen into the water.

life buoy

noun

1. any of various kinds of buoyant device for keeping people afloat in an emergency

Example Sentences

Constitution, may be her best yet, a capacious work that lands at the right moment, like a life buoy, as our ship of state takes on water.

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"Life jacket, life buoy and their floating technique allow us 48 hours to save their lives," he said late on Monday.

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"I got my arm into the life buoy and the skipper went full ahead and pulled me out of the way. They got me on to the pilot boat."

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Seeing him turn severe limitations into something both expansive and expressive was an artistic life buoy for theater lovers, helping us survive the feeling that the perpetual invalid was, if not dead, in a coma.

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“The federal dollars that have come in, they’re the life buoy,” he said.

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