They steered the boat towards it, and to their astonishment found the captain with the lifebuoy round him, still battling for life.
To the lifebuoy was tied a second line, one end of which was held by the lifeboat crew.
With all the might of his strong arm the coxwain hurled a lifebuoytowards the drowning man.
Presently one of the men rose up, and coming to the stern of the vessel threw a lifebuoy attached to a long line into the sea.
Borne by the wind and tide the lifebuoy reached the boat, and was at once seized and hauled on board.
A lifebuoy was accordingly thrown overboard with a rope attached, and floated to the boat.
It was caught, a lifebuoy was attached to it, and it was hauled on board the wreck.
They did not think life-preserving worth the expenditure of a few shillings, so there was no lifebuoy to be found.
Just as the lifeboat arrived with its first cargo of passengers, a large block or pulley was run out along the hawser by means of the whip, having attached to it a circular lifebuoy with a canvas bag hanging from it.
I suppose we ought to secure that lifebuoy as evidence.
He, too, had succeeded in reaching a lifebuoy thrown by the nearmost destroyer.
As she swept by, a lifebuoy was hurled towards the sub, luckily missing him by a bare yard.
A lifebuoy was hanging over the taffrail, suspended by a stout lanyard; and this buoy I hurriedly cut adrift, passing it over Miss Onslow's shoulders and up under her armpits.
But Harley Greenoak had picked up the lifebuoy and was towing it towards the pair, whom in a few minutes he was seen to reach.
Roughly charging through the crowd a quarter-master leapt aft, and with deft and powerful sweep of the arm hurled the lifebuoy in his hand far out and across the path of the swimmer.
The lifebuoy is one of those circular lifebuoys--with which most of us are familiar--which hang at the sides of steamers and other vessels, to be ready in case of any one falling overboard.
As he speaks, the lifebuoy arrives again with a jovial sort of swing, as if it had been actually warmed into life by its glorious work, and had come out of its own accord.
The hawser is a thick rope, or cable, to which the lifebuoy is suspended when in action.
To the "traveller" block the whip is attached; then the order is given to the men to haul, and away goes the lifebuoy to the wreck, run out by the men on shore.
By this time the light from the lifebuoy was no longer visible, and even had a boat been lowered, it would have been difficult, if not almost impossible, to find it.
Then he gave a well-understood signal with a ship's lantern to the men on shore, who fastened a slung lifebuoy to their whip line, hung it by a block to the thick cable, and ran it quickly out to the wreck.
The cheers were not heard by those in the wreck, but the re-appearance of the lifebuoy proved that the children had been saved, and a deep "Thanks be to God!
Before the lifebuoy had gained the shore it was plunged into the sea, out of which it no longer rose, the support of the wreck being gone.
Through the surging breakers and over the rugged rocks the lifebuoy was dragged, and a shout of relief arose when the gallant Coastguardsman was seen clinging to it.
A signal having been again given with the lantern, the lifebuoy was drawn swiftly to land.
Swimming towards him and pushing a lifebuoy was Stairs, the bluejacket whose gratitude he had gained by letting him off with a caution instead of putting him in the captain's defaulter's book.
The devoted man, seeing Terence blown over the side by the explosion of a hostile shell, had without hesitation seized a lifebuoy and had plunged into the sea with the laudable intention of either saving his officer or sharing his fate.
Seeing that Terence was afloat, he contented himself with pushing the lifebuoy into his grasp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lifebuoy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
