NOUN
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the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
he lived a long and happy life
the battery had a short life
How To Use life-time In A Sentence
- Free radicals are very difficult to study due to their short life-times - measured in millionth's of a second. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1971 - Presentation Speech
- They may encourage young people to acquire a life-time habit of using buses and not bother with cars.
- With this transition, English teaching gradually becomes practical and actually plays the foundation for each student's life-time development.
- Moreover, the time or execution phase, when in the life-time of an activity the problem occurs, determines what repairing actions can be performed.
- Most of the invalids are in their 30s or 40s, securing life-time pensions worth 70 per cent of the final retirement-age salaries.
- It is a scenario where politicians couldn't even promise results as labour law snookered workers dogged by bad, bad luck after a life-time commitment to an industry that simply moved from Athy.
- In this _baladin_ talent of his there was something of the freedom and sparkle of the Italian abbés; and yet the Abbé de Voisenon enjoyed during his life-time a high degree of celebrity. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
- A son feared his father died from the human form of mad cow disease due to a life-time exposure to offal in his career as a slaughterman.
- A Life-Time Warranty backs all Trail Blazer's collapsible bucksaws with replaceable wood, bone and metal blades.
- From it, during her life-time, she ejects eggs in an almost constant stream.