BUOY in a Sentence

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For BUOY, below is one of 12 sentences:
"Thou art crushed under this seven years' weight of misery," replied Hester, fervently resolved to buoy him up with her own energy.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUOY
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buoy
 n.  a float, especially, a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water
Classic Sentence:
1  Immediately, by Starbuck's orders, lines were secured to it at different points, so that ere long every boat was a buoy; the sunken whale being suspended a few inches beneath them by the cords.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
2  A youth, a mild-faced Acadian, was drawing water from the cistern, which was nothing more than a rusty buoy, with an opening on one side, sunk in the ground.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIII
3  "Thou art crushed under this seven years' weight of misery," replied Hester, fervently resolved to buoy him up with her own energy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
4  At the end of it is a buoy with a bell, which swings in bad weather, and sends in a mournful sound on the wind.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  For a moment, her self-justification buoyed her up but still she looked about the hall with distaste.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  All thy unnamable imminglings float beneath me here; I am buoyed by breaths of once living things, exhaled as air, but water now.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale.
7  The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  A lot of times, it's a two-loop swim, and the turn buoy is only 300 yards away.
2  The coach used all the tricks at his command to buoy up the enthusiasm of his team, which had become dispirited at the loss of the star player.
3  Flotation collars are used to buoy space capsules that land in the sea.
4  The party is buoyed up by the latest opinion poll results.
5  House prices have been buoyed in the area by the possibility of a new factory opening.