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life vest

NOUN
  1. life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design

How To Use life vest In A Sentence

  • They had been in the water for more than four hours, struggling to stay afloat with just one life vest between them, and had not been seen despite drifting into one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
  • They're filthy, they rarely, if ever, have any lifesaving equipment, no life vests, they frequently run out of water and food and migrants are abused by the snakeheads acting as enforcers on these boats.
  • Walsh was briefly trapped in the cockpit, managed to inflate his life vest, and rocketed to the surface.
  • The life vest buoyed him up
  • The beach is littered with discarded life vests and scuppered rubber dinghies. Times, Sunday Times
  • But as it turned out when we boarded the aircraft, after donning life vests and helmets with noise-canceling earmuffs, I wasn't worried at all for myself. Mission: Osprey on Hudson
  • Ancient ships carried small boats for the transfer of passengers to the shore but no life rafts or life vests. Christianity Today
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