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  • noun Plural form of lifebelt.

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Examples

  • His description of her, a non-swimmer, in a small motorboat, guiding seven children, all without lifebelts, through mountainous waves in the open Norwegian seas was typical.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • They were all wearing lifebelts and camouflage white, and carrying both weapons and ice tools.

    Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009

  • He, the Alpha and the Omega, uses our trials to make us take those curiosities out of the museum of our Sunday School theologies, and forge them into the shoes and lifebelts that will carry us through all the journeys and oceans of life.

    Not Just Curiosities for a Museum Meg 2008

  • He, the Alpha and the Omega, uses our trials to make us take those curiosities out of the museum of our Sunday School theologies, and forge them into the shoes and lifebelts that will carry us through all the journeys and oceans of life.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Belinda 2008

  • Finally we got going and on deck once more we leant on the rail between the rows of orange lifebelts as the horn blew loud enough to deafen.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • Finally we got going and on deck once more we leant on the rail between the rows of orange lifebelts as the horn blew loud enough to deafen.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • Fifty years ago the lifebelts wouldn't have been stolen and the Barrett family might still be alive.

    Murder and Accident Laban 2005

  • Finally we got going and on deck once more we leant on the rail between the rows of orange lifebelts as the horn blew loud enough to deafen.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

  • Fifty years ago the lifebelts wouldn't have been stolen and the Barrett family might still be alive.

    Archive 2005-08-28 Laban 2005

  • Finally we got going and on deck once more we leant on the rail between the rows of orange lifebelts as the horn blew loud enough to deafen.

    Long Way Down Ewan McGregor 2007

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