How to Use buoy in a Sentence

buoy

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• The suspects were wearing the same clothes as seen in the video from the buoy.
  — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
• The two paddled to a buoy, whose line led to the inky depths below.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 9 Feb. 2024
• But don't worry, there's enough room on a buoy for the both of them.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2023
• Grab a kickboard, a pull buoy, and aqua weights for this one.
  — Mallory Creveling, Women's Health, 16 June 2023
• The shark has been detected four time at the same buoy.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 23 July 2022
• To get the canoe up to speed for the crash, it was hooked to a truck that could pull it into the buoy.
  — Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 4 Jan. 2023
• Migrants walk by a string of buoys placed along the Rio Grande border.
  — Colin Sheeley, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2023
• With one hand on the buoy line and the other in the air, Nicholas set the swimmers loose for a 9.5-mile swim to a dam on the far side of the lake.
  — Adam Skolnick, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• The man found by the buoys was from Mexico and is believed to have been dead for some time.
  — Armando Garcia, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Clip the anchor line to the lower ring on the spike and use the top ring for a buoy or flag to mark the spike’s location.
  — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
• The crew races to refill the bait boxes and shove the pot overboard before the boat reaches the next buoy.
  — Julia Rosen, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
• In the movie, Thomas and Sophie buoy Marc with quiet acts of care, keeping him afloat.
  — Laura Zornosa, TIME, 29 Dec. 2023
• The plan recommended it be marked with buoys placed in the water.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2023
• Breathless from the shock of the cold, the competitors swam to a string of orange buoys in the shadow of a concrete dam.
  — Adam Skolnick, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• If the buoy fell or the castaway stepped off the perch, they would be eliminated from the challenge.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 21 Apr. 2022
• The big buoy came to be because pranksters were forever stealing the old sign.
  — Jeff Kleinman, orlandosentinel.com, 9 Jan. 2022
• So hitting that final buoy [at a time of 34:53] was such a relief.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• Many view the buoy barrier and razor wire as steps too far.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
• The buoys measured wind speed, wind direction and wave height.
  — Carol Thompson The Detroit News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 27 Nov. 2023
• The buoys are used to detect submarines and other objects in the water.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
• The buoy, looking to connect with anything, pretends to be one so the satellite will stop and talk to it.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2024
• And so then what are Texas lawyers arguing now in defense of these buoys?
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
• Pulling his pirogue up to one of the buoys, marked by a white tassel flag, Camara began to pull in a net.
  — Rachel Chason and Chloe Sharrock, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
• The city began repairs to the famous buoy on the same day as the fire, and the damage is estimated to be over $5,000.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• Meanwhile Brad and Wes are locked head to head at their buoy, and Nia passes Jonna.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 30 June 2022
• It’s bad enough in normal conditions, but when the wind blows, the Island Hole at Sawgrass is the size of a buoy.
  — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
• The sensor and the buoy were connected by a thousand-metre-long wire.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• You're not restricted to just that one spot where the buoy is located.
  — Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
• The buoy is really just there to have the radio transmitters and things like that on up at the surface.
  — Scientific American Custom Media, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2022
• The first team to tug in 1,000 feet, marked by a bright orange buoy, wins the yearly competition.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023

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buoy

2 of 2 verb

• The tax breaks should help to buoy the economy.
• The win even buoyed hopes that stalled Biden nominations would now have the votes to pass.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2023
• The fact that the lovers conform to a type, in their sighing and gasping, seems to buoy up, not to pop, the erotic mood.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
• The Timbers, buoyed by the dazzling play of Evander, went up 3-1 in the first few minutes of the second half.
  — oregonlive, 14 May 2023
• This helps buoy low temperatures in the mid- to upper 70s.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• Marc is buoyed by Sophie and Thomas in his grief, but his friends also have troubles of their own.
  — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2024
• The union also has been buoyed by a nationwide rise in union activism.
  — Meg James and Wendy Lee, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Sep. 2023
• In the throes of the Great Depression, the nation looked to Hollywood to buoy its spirts, to escape from mediocrity.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• Though the film might feel aimless at times, it’s buoyed by scenes in which the musicians come together to rap and sing.
  — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 June 2023
• Perhaps this is buoyed by his own role in fighting climate change.
  — Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2023
• The truck's solid rear axle is also buoyed by enhanced shock absorbers and a leaf-spring kit that raises the ride height.
  — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 4 Apr. 2023
• No matter how your day started, this hike will buoy your spirits.
  — Jim Holden, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2024
• Even a slightly rusty Wiggins should bolster them on both ends and buoy their title odds.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
• The price of Shell stocks have hit record highs, buoyed by the prospect that the war’s expansion could disrupt Middle East oil production and trade flows.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2023
• In Joann's case, the company was buoyed in the early days of the pandemic as the shutdown spurred some consumers to take up crafts and other projects.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 18 Mar. 2024
• Those lamenting the lack of updates to the former will be buoyed by intriguing additions to the latter line.
  — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2023
• One day soon, a platform 50 times as large may float in the deep waters of the North Sea, buoying up a massive wind turbine to harvest the steady, strong breezes there.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
• Last year its margin, buoyed by high vehicle prices, was 8.1%.
  — WSJ, 21 June 2023
• There’s just something to the sensation of floating, of being buoyed and carried along with no effort of your own.
  — Chelsee Lowe, Travel + Leisure, 2 Apr. 2023
• But catching mid-table Girona, buoyed by arguably this year’s shrewdest signing, is a better way to go.
  — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• The Bruins, buoyed by a large turnout of fans in Sacramento, soon regained the lead, but Northwestern kept hanging around.
  — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2023
• Seattle’s strength of schedule is buoyed by 16 games remaining against those three.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
• What about markets: In a twist, the prospect of a steady Fed policy buoyed markets and sent Treasury yields lower on Tuesday.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
• The lack of resale competition may buoy the new-home market a bit more than normal, though.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 22 June 2023
• Its meteoric rise has been buoyed — much to the chagrin of some — by the interest in all things fermented and gut-friendly.
  — Kim Severson, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• This latest victory, the players agreed, will help buoy the future.
  — Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2024
• The Bridge finds her spinning gold from the personal and public scrutiny, buoyed by the freedom of someone who’s taken their demons by the throat and thrown them off a cliff.
  — Hannah Summerhill, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2023
• Newsom’s first term in office was buoyed by record-smashing surpluses of more than $100 billion in some years.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
• Read on for recipes buoyed by sweet and spicy flavors, plus a simple, customizable hot honey recipe — and 10 ways to use it.
  — Tina Danze, Dallas News, 5 May 2023
• The rich, buoyed by their relative economic stability, are less preyed upon by the promise of millions or billions.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024