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for dear life

ADVERB
  1. as though your life was at stake
    he was running for dear life

How To Use for dear life In A Sentence

  • We had to hold on for dear life. The Sun
  • But for the rest, and that's close on half the top 20, ambition now revolves around grasping the coat-tails of the boom-boom bandwagon and hanging on for dear life as it rattles along a road ridged around a ravine.
  • Tyrhenae bit her bottom lip, as she held onto the stair above her for dear life.
  • My brother and I were brought over by a coyote who took us to a remote location where we had to squirm under a fence and then run for dear life.
  • Those of the crew not gathered at the stern held on for dear life to whatever they could or scrambled to the front of the forecastle to brace against it.
  • She held on to the tree for dear life.
  • Or, these inseparable couples could be holding on for dear life, dangling just slightly above eye level so we look up at them pryingly, like equally helpless children.
  • She was sewing as for dear life, and her face was primmer and colder than ever. Chronicles of Avonlea
  • Alex's cold hands went to Michelle's neck, and strangled her for dear life.
  • O'Hara wouldn't wake, so I just lifted him on board like a sack, tossed in his cornet and my bombardon, tumbled in on top of them, and started to row for dear life towards the ship's light in the offing. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
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