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n. (life preserver English)
Usage examples of "life preservers".
He tossed one of the life preservers into the water, nearly beaning the old guy in the process.
The next day a helicopter pilot was flying over the lake and thought he saw something floating in the water, small white bodies in orange life preservers and an overturned blue canoe.
He was not even the bravest (the bravest did not put on life preservers, and went to their deaths like warriors).
They could get life preservers because they were handy everywhere about the great dirigible.
Then they worked together and joined their life preservers with ropes, in order that they might not drift apart.
How would you like to spend the rest of this war counting life preservers in Melbourne?
Beyond were heads and bodies huddled together in a mass of khaki overcoats and life preservers.
Many of them clutch life preservers or bits of wood to stay afloat.
He just hurled what he could get his hands on - an oar, a boathook, a cushion, two life preservers, a lead squid used for mackerel trolling, the brass cover off the compass binnacle.