How to use buoy in a sentence

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• If we stay on this course we should clear the buoy.From the entry clear
• The region's economy is buoyed by tourism driven by past apparitions of the Virgin Mary.From the entry apparition
• The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.From the entry trough
• I can hear the bell on the buoy, but I can’t see anything in this pea-souper.From the entry pea-souper
• Attach the buoys so they don't go overboard.From the entry go overboard
• They saw the light near the cape, which they mistook that night for a lighthouse, although it is in fact a light buoy.From the entry light buoy
• Beyond the marina, lights danced on the dark water—buoys, boats, a half-waxen moon.2015, Kevin Egan, The Missing Piece. From the entry half-waxen
• They look like sisters, an impression buoyed by their twinsy outfits.2015, Lisa J. Shannon, Mama Koko and the Hundred Gunmen: An Ordinary Family’s Extraordinary Tale of Love, Loss, and Survival in Congo, New…. From the entry twinsy
• My shopping cart became my life buoy as I hung on to it and stubbornly kept going.2012, Holly Reese, Rising from the Abyss, page 116. From the entry life buoy
• While scanning the planet Pregel, you discovered several marker buoys orbiting it.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Pregel, Turian Insignia Recoverd. From the entry high-res
• Above all, the Marshall Plan was a life buoy for the then sinking French economy.2006, Peter van Kemseke, Towards an Era of Development, page 43. From the entry life buoy
• The hold was empty, without a net, corkline, leadline or buoy to be found.1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry leadline
• Survivors then came ashore in either the lifecar or the breeches buoy.1991, Mariners Weather Log. From the entry lifecar
• Ships line up on the buoys to insure they do not stray from the shipping lane.1987 July 30, Bernard E. Trainor, “Showdown in Gulf”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Feb 2013. From the entry shipping lane
• The number keeps going up, which has a buoying effect on markets that is, in the short term, good.2025 October 30, Matteo Wong, Charlie Warzel, “Here’s How the AI Crash Happens”, in The Atlantic. From the entry load-bearing
• The sharply written script, buoyed by its surrealist bent, facilitates the plot well enough that the impracticalities aren’t too distracting.2023 January 18, Shamira Ibrahim, “The Film That Accurately Captures Teen Grief”, in The Atlantic. From the entry surrealist
• Underneath the area demarcated by the buoys, Ms Puckett plants kelp—a type of seaweed—on long ropes that resemble washing lines.2021 June 26, “Why New England is going wild for wet weeds”, in The Economist, →ISSN. From the entry kelp
• Baoshan Township Chief Chiu Kun-tung’s spirits are buoyed.2020 September 25, Hannah Chang, “TSMC’s Expansion Challenges Boundaries”, in CommonWealth Magazine, archived from the original on 26 Sep…. From the entry Chupei
• Xenofeminism sees the rising wave of technocracy but instead of searching for a buoy, it wants to catch the surf.2019, Bogna M. Konior, “Automate the Womb: Ecologies and Technologies of Reproduction”, in Parrhesia, number 31, page 232. From the entry xenofeminism
• 'Any buoy,' I told him, 'just yell and point.'2015, Tom Cunliffe, In the Wake of Heroes: Sailing's Greatest Stories Introduced by Tom Cunliffe, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry leeboard
• Sunny moves through these final days quickly, easily, buoyed by routine even though change is afoot in all directions.2011, Maile Chapman, Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel. From the entry afoot
• Buoyed by that success, I was eager to disprove the myth that, “You can't change horses in mid-stream.”2011, Bob Wolff, Bob Wolff's Complete Guide to Sportscasting. From the entry change horses in mid-stream
• Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings.2009 June 4, Kimi Yoshino, “For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 07 May 2016. From the entry funemployed
• Chief Engineer Adams secured some high-res optical images of the buoys, which appear to have been neglected for some time.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Pregel, Turian Insignia Recoverd. From the entry high-res
• The last reel is buoyed by the deliciously hammy tones of David Bowie, who voices the Voldemortish villain.2007 January 18, Al Hoff, “Arthur and the Invisibles”, in Pittsburgh City Paper. From the entry deliciously
• A raft of sea lions playing "king of the buoy".1999 April, J. Michael Hemsley, Kathleen C. O'Neil and LTJG Lee H. Allison, USCG, “Evicting Sea Lions”, in Mariners Weather Log, U.S.…. From the entry raft
• Neat as if you was following a line of buoys."1997, Janet Stevenson, Departure. From the entry bunkside
• Included in the display will be an active underwater buoy, a depth sensor waterbreak hydrophones unit, and a waterbreak converter.1969, Petroleum Times - Volume 73, page 251. From the entry waterbreak
• Dan buoys laid to mark a dumping ground.1917, United States. Office of Naval Intelligence, O.N.I. Publications, page 17. From the entry dan
• Lagan are those things that are intentionally jettisoned, as well, but which sink below the surface, possibly marked by a buoy or a line.2022, Lara Messersmith-Glavin, Spirit Things, London: University Press of Colorado, pages 101-112. From the entry lagan
• After returning from the cable factory with another load of cable and repeaters, the buoy will be recovered or the rope grappled for.2012, Jamal Manassah, Innovations in Telecommunications, Elsevier, page 427. From the entry grapple
• More systems have gone dark as their comm buoys were destroyed, and millions more batarians, trapped on their planets, sit waiting for the Reapers.2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: The Fall of Khar'shan Codex entry. From the entry go dark
• The sight of so many girls and women clamoring for that particular item, cash clenched in sweaty fists, buoyed the hope of manufacturers everywhere.2002 October 17, Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry in the pink

Meaning of buoy

1. noun A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes.
2. noun A lifebuoy; a life preserver.
3. noun A sign where the non-dominant hand is held in a stationary configuration as a landmark for meaning associations with the dominant hand.

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Questions about buoy in a sentence

How do you use buoy in a sentence?

Buoy is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Buoyed by the huge success, they announced two other projects.”

What is a short sentence with buoy?

“Fancett is clearly buoyed by the support.”

What does buoy mean?

Buoy means a float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes.