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US
/ˈɫaɪˌfɫaɪn/
]
[ UK /lˈaɪflaɪn/ ]
[ UK /lˈaɪflaɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live
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support that enables people to survive or to continue doing something (often by providing an essential connection)
she offered me a lifeline in my time of grief
the airlift provided a lifeline for Berlin - line that raises or lowers a deep-sea diver
- line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning
How To Use lifeline In A Sentence
- Carey's strike gave his Parkhead pals hope of a title lifeline b e f o r e Gers hit back. The Daily Record - Home
- It will slam the door shut to the possibility of connecting to a greater reality lifeline that they can make sense from.
- But the noose and lifeline metaphors dramatize the in-culture ‘factness’ of much writing, its consequentiality, rather than the seductive pleasures of its speculative realm.
- Next, he boosted the Airedale up the companionway and slung him over the lifelines and onto the deck of the powerboat. CORMORANT
- I like the heritage aspect - that from day one Sydney Harbour was a working port and the city's commercial lifeline to the world.
- As he was exhaling his last breath, he was struggling to live, trying to hang on to the lifeline that he had.
- More than 80 pensioners use the service and see it as a lifeline to services in the region.
- Rescue teams continued to drill toward six trapped miners Thursday evening and were hopeful of reaching the men with lifelines, mine officials said.
- India's Brahmaputra river, known in China as the Yarlung Tsangpo, is a lifeline that provides irrigation and hydroelectric power for several Indian states and Bangladesh. Indian Satellites Confirm China Not Diverting River
- It is the duty of those able to throw a lifeline, to do so, so that some strong swimmers will survive.
