Sentence examples for as a flotation device from inspiring English sources

In case of a water landing, your seat cushion may be used as a flotation device.

Think of the plebiscite as a flotation device for a prime minister who has emerged from an election contest with his authority diminished.

I never paid much attention to the safety speech about how the seat cushion detaches and can be used as a flotation device.

Taking care to cover up the warning that said "Not to be used as a flotation device," we dragged the ball pit to the pond at the appointed hour.

He knew that more needed to be said, and he wanted to say more, but he had nothing explicit to add, and so, unmoored, wrapped his arms around his belly as if in a pinch it could act as a flotation device.

Just think of the instructions that flight attendants give on every passenger airline flight, in every language: your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device; follow the lighted path to the exits; there are two emergency doors over the wings.

An unlikely hero saved two teen swimmers on Thursday when a drone dropped a flotation device as the pair were stranded in heavy surf.

"We have a light attached to a flotation device," he said.

They formed a kind of loose cage, trapping bags — or, as Sanders soon discovered, bags within bags within knotted bags, containing enough air that they amounted to a flotation device.

They were pulled from the water by officers on land who used a line and a flotation device.

This is basically a flotation device, an air-filled, rigid plastic raft roughly in the shape of a kayak.