How to Use life vest in a Sentence

life vest

noun

• Slap some life vests on those kids and go look for lily pads.
  — Victoria Barber, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
• Throw on a life vest and hop in a kayak for a tour on the water!
  — Rianne Coale, RedEye Chicago, 9 June 2017
• Her life vest had bunched up around her neck, stripping her skin right off.
  — Suzan Haidamous, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• Then a drone could be quickly deployed to drop a life vest to them.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2022
• Josey yelled for help and cried before falling asleep in his life vest.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2021
• Onboard, a couple tried to wrap a life vest around their young child.
  — Erika Hayasaki, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
• He was found asleep on the boat about an hour later, wearing a life vest.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• Don't just grab a life vest or bring it on your paddleboard; put it on.
  — Olivia Young, CBS News, 26 May 2026
• By a stroke of luck, the great seas that had swept us under had not torn off our life vests.
  — Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
• The missing man is believed to have been wearing a life vest.
  — Nanette Asimov, SFChronicle.com, 10 Nov. 2019
• But in an ocean of too-heavy croissants, Nuvrei is a life vest.
  — Michael Russell, oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2019
• Both were wearing life vests at the time of the crash, officials said.
  — Tanasia Kenney The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 11 Sep. 2023
• The woman, who was wearing a life vest, jumped in to try to rescue him.
  — Vic Ryckaert, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2020
• Cornejo swam a short distance to the man, whose life vest was slipping off.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2020
• On deck, he was handed a life vest, but for a while, no one around him jumped into the sea.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• Donning their life vests and goggles, the pups paddled out to catch the big one.
  — NBC News, 16 Aug. 2019
• She was found under the bed, wrapped in a blanket and concealed by life vests.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 16 June 2026
• The child was later found asleep on the boat, wrapped in a towel and wearing a life vest.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020
• Phoenix has on a pair of floaties and a life vest, holding a finger up as the mom of two smiles.
  — Hannah Sacks, People.com, 31 Dec. 2024
• An inflatable plaid life vest barely holds his face out of the water.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
• The coroner said Murray was not wearing a life vest.
  — Michael Guise, CBS News, 12 June 2026
• But throwing a life vest to Twitter won’t stop free speech from drowning.
  — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
• Crews were cutting through ice and workers in life vests were in the water searching.
  — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
• Everyone on board wore a life vest and six vests were found during the search, per the outlet.
  — Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• Buschow said the child was wearing a life vest and another adult-size vest was found in the vessel.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 9 July 2020
• The man was not wearing a life vest, authorities said.
  — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 1 June 2026
• In a moment captured on video, a drone dropped a life vest into the sea as the boy struggled to stay afloat.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2022
• As a kid at the campsite, Mo Jackson always had a life vest on.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2020
• In the photo, the foursome wrapped up warm in matching red jackets and black pants, along with life vests.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 19 Jan. 2026
• The police had sent him a picture of the bloated body in a coffin, wearing a life vest.
  — Matthew Wolfe, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019