Safety

If you push it to the limit, safety is not guaranteed.

He managed to reach the border and escape to safety.

Oh, oh! “Go to safety”! Why didn’t I think of that⁉ Here I am in danger when, really, I could simply be going to safety! I shouldn’t have wasted your time by calling in the first place!

Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.

[…] imprison him, […] / Deliver him to safety; and return,

He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety.

The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.

Boy wondered about that bunt. He had a notion Fowler would commit himself soon because time was on the go. But Fowler didn’t, making it another sweep of three Pirates. He had thus far given up only two safeties.

That was a poor safety from Higgins.

After thirty minutes of safety, Selby finally potted a red, to ironic cheers.

Many wheelmen and wheelwomen, riding safeties, tandems and tricycles, stopped there during the evening and we had good opportunity for comparing American and English bicycles […]

There are cyclists, like Mr. F. T. Bidlake, who prefer a tricycle to a safety, and to such men a long ride on a tricycle is no more fatiguing than a safety bicycle ride of the same distance.

Time went back to normal for him; he safetied his own weapon and dropped it, jumping forward.

Osborne lay propped up on one elbow, his pistol cocked, his aim wavering in the general direction the man had gone. Finally he safetied it, stuffed it in the holster on his right hip, and reached for his cell phone in his jacket pocket. But it was gone.