life vest

noun

: life jacket

Examples of life vest in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The dogs, sporting their colorful life vests, stood ready on their surfboards and were assisted by human participants, who spotted the best wave to carry the board to the beach. — ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026

Peters held Moses up against the car as two other bystanders swam out with life vests. — Liz Crawford, CBS News, 31 July 2026

The fisherman, who has not been publicly identified, had been treading water for about two-and-a-half hours without a life vest before the three man crew of the Seal Junior found him, according to the outlets. — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

The 17 passengers and crew who lived told investigators everyone survived the landing, but many passengers struggled to locate life vests and the crew had a difficult time pulling out life rafts. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for life vest

• acquiesced
• coalesced
• dispossessed
• manifest
• overdressed
• overstressed
• prepossessed
• reassessed
• reinvest
• repossessed
• unaddressed
• uncompressed