How to Use safety in a Sentence

safety

1 of 2 noun
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  • They were led to safety by the rescuers.
  • The changes were made in the interest of public safety.
  • I'm worried about the safety of the people who were left behind.
  • The car has been redesigned for improved safety.
  • She was only a mile from the safety of her home when the accident occurred.
  • The toys are inspected for safety.
  • The injured hiker was finally able to reach safety.
  • We were reluctant to leave the relative safety of our hotel.
  • He made some suggestions about how to improve airline safety.
  • In the fourth and fifth videos, Baldwin stops filming to check on the safety of the crew.
    — Chloe Melas, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The rule serves as a common safety measure at venues in Brazil and around the world.
    — Marina Dias, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Bell has been the fourth safety most of camp, but Hickman is making a push.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Ser declined to release him, in spite of the safety concerns raised in court.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Why does India have such a poor track record on rail safety?
    — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2023
  • The city has banned the sale of e-bikes and similar devices that do not meet safety standards.
    — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Klimek: Was Michigan her first choice or safety school?
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • Bey projected at linebacker and Rahim at safety for the Aztecs.
    — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2023
  • His newlywed friend, a former lifeguard, grabbed him by the neck, dragged him out of the riptide, and brought him to safety.
    — Tim Stevens, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Always making sure the safety lock on the bottle is engaged.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Soldiers helped secure a safety perimetre around the scene.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 21 June 2023
  • The lawyer is requesting van der Sloot be moved to another prison for his own safety.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 29 May 2023
  • Both argue safety shouldn’t stand in the way of releasing new technologies, but Altman didn’t go out of his way to peeve the ESG crowd.
    — Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Jackson allowed Hill to streak past him on the outside when his help — in this case safety Derwin James Jr. — was inside.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The safety of the tourist submersible that went missing on its way to the site of the Titanic has allegedly been a matter of concern before.
    — Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • Federal judges and the U.S. Supreme Court have repeatedly struck down efforts to restrict speech, even in the name of kids’ safety.
    — Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Many activists have called for a ceasefire, urging for the safety of innocent Palestinians caught in the war.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The safety problems on the Boeing Max planes go far beyond this one incident, Pierson said.
    — Kiera Feldman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • With summer travel plans on the horizon, safety for you and your family might be your top concern.
    — ABC News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • In photos shared by officials, the horse is seen walking up to the train station, crossing the platform, then stopping at the safety line that keeps people far enough away from the track.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
  • With predators more active during the daytime, the website recommends visiting the live stream at night to spot fish swimming in the safety of darkness.
    — Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
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safety

2 of 2 verb
  • To bring Shane back to the building is a risk to safety for all.
    — Tyler Kingkade, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Willis was able to boot the ball away to safety some 40 yards off his line.
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Ben got the clients to safety on a rock in the middle of the river that hippos couldn’t climb.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Is there a place that my boys could safety watch the construction trucks?
    — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2017
  • What kind of impact will safety Su’a Cravens make this year?
    — Ryan O'Halloran, The Denver Post, 11 June 2019
  • Or safety Bennett Williams or center Alex Forsyth (for the third straight game).
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Sailors were tossed or forced to jump into the oily muck below, and Potts and his fellow sailors pulled some to safety in their boat.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Kulig jumped off the platform to lift the man to safety with others rushing over to help 60 seconds before a train raced through.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 15 July 2017
  • Burkhead was on his way to a big gain off a screen pass when Bills safety Jordan Poyer caught him from behind and stripped the ball.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Amos remains a free agent — and the team has given his jersey number, 31, to safety James Wiggins.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2023
  • Vonn Bell has been described as someone able to play either safety role.
    — NOLA.com, 20 May 2017
  • Bethel Search and Rescue member Tom Martini was one of the people who helped get the rest of the family to safety that night.
    — Anna Rose MacArthur, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2018
  • Rescue workers pulled people to safety from the flood waters.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2023
  • His mother, Crystal Waddel, told the news station that her son's actions gave the 6-year-old boy enough time to run to safety himself.
    — Fox News, 25 July 2019
  • With new coach Jonathan Gannon taking over, Simmons asked to be moved to safety full-time, and his request was granted.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
  • There are dangerous blind spots, gaps in logic and safety the size of the Ohio State offensive line, but nobody wants to hear that.
    — Gregg Doyel, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Jalen Harvey moved from wide receiver to safety this spring.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Vaccaro can play either safety position and at 27 years old remains in the prime of his career.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Rams safety Jordan Fuller intercepted a pass and returned it 18 yards — the first time this season the Rams had return yardage on a turnover.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
  • So could safety Derwin James — who missed last year’s game with an injury — on defense or special teams.
    — Jake Lourim, The Courier-Journal, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Rams safety Taylor Rapp goes through a training camp practice.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The boy can be seen falling to the ground while his desperate mother races to her child’s defense by picking him up and scooping him to safety inside the store.
    — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The heroic man helped get Huber-Lucas to safety by pulling her through the car’s open sunroof moments before the vehicle sank.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The mother is then seen in footage from the officer’s body camera ducking and whisking her children to safety as the officer calls for back up.
    — Amy Simonson, CNN, 28 June 2023
  • This writer called a Wall Street prime mover in conducting people to safety on the morning no one will forget, Frank Bisignano.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 July 2023
  • His third-attempt from his own end zone deflected off wide receiver Phat Watts to safety Christian Swint, who returned it to the 8.
    — G Smith, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • These smaller rocket motors would be used to power a crew to safety away from the main Falcon rocket if something were to go wrong during a launch.
    — Hailey Rose McLaughlin, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2019
  • The interpreter carried Kinley to safety after both survived a brutal gun fight during the war 2018 war in Afghanistan.
    — Rudie Obias, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Lawmakers put on gas masks and crawled under seats before officers whisked them to safety out the back door without a moment to spare.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Maks is now back in Ukraine, where his orphanage's director has moved him to relatively safety in the country's west.
    — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022

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