Examples of life buoy in a Sentence
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Senate Bill 424 calls for public and private-owned piers and beach drop-offs to be outfitted with at least one ring life buoy.
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Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2023
For an immigrant in a new country, telling one’s story might feel like a life buoy; for a formerly enslaved person, legibility was a matter of life and death.
—New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
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Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2023
For an immigrant in a new country, telling one’s story might feel like a life buoy; for a formerly enslaved person, legibility was a matter of life and death.
—New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
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“Life buoy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life%20buoy. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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