[ UK /lˈa‍ɪfta‍ɪm/ ]
[ US /ˈɫaɪfˌtaɪm/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
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How To Use lifetime In A Sentence

  • The boa and the rattlesnake are homebodies that seldom travel more than a couple of miles in a lifetime.
  • Not only by the immense number of adherents that were won to his views during his lifetime, but also by the literary productions he left behind him, Tsong K'aba's influence has been great during the last five centuries of Tibetan history. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
  • A business tycoon, arts patron and committed left-winger, Berge opted to sell the collection amassed over a lifetime after Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71.
  • But while he speaks of war-time heroes and exploratory pioneers, he forgets about another interesting lifetime.
  • One reason for his relative obscurity has been the general unavailability of his music: his works remained unpublished during his lifetime and, apart from some ‘easy’ tonal compositions, largely unperformed.
  • Exxon Mobil, which is probably the world's best managed company in our lifetimes. Forbes.com: News
  • That, and his extraordinary capacity for self-sacrificing friendship, loyalty and sweet-natured nannying, have been his quadruple of acclaimed lifetime's high-lights.
  • Unlike the phrenologists of the 19th century, DeYoung's team doesn't presume to know whether differences in the size of a brain region give rise to unique personality characteristics, or whether our personality differences cause our brains to develop in unique ways - say, that when we practice random acts of kindness, our "agreeableness" center grows larger, or that a lifetime of social isolation might cause a region associated with The Columbian stories: Columns
  • There was once a moment,we misunderstood it was a lifetime.
  • What began as a university course blossomed into the experience of a lifetime.
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