life belt

How to use life belt in a sentence

• A millionaire might offer more for a life belt as a souvenir than a drowning man could pay for it to save his life.

  The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen Leacock

• His father told him to run and hunt round for the life-belt, and he went to left instead of to right, and missed of seeing it.

  Somehow Good | William de Morgan

• It was a bad business that the life-belt was well away at the far end, and I had no chance to handle it in time.

  Somehow Good | William de Morgan

• Each man and woman get a life belt ready, but you need not put them on until you are told.

  Story of Chester Lawrence | Nephi Anderson

• The captain led Chester away from the dead, out to the open deck, and buckled around him a life-belt.

  Story of Chester Lawrence | Nephi Anderson