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One reason for his relative obscurity has been the general unavailability of his music: his works remained unpublished during his lifetime and, apart from some ‘easy’ tonal compositions, largely unperformed.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.
The car's cam belt runs in engine oil, which means it will last the lifetime of the car. The Sun
Then we grow elderly, and we have the greater experience and wisdom of a lifetime with which to understand.
I am pretty certain that during his actual practice lifetime Dr. Egnor utilized these studies and never counted on the brains of his patients to be so intelligently designed that they would all be optimally perfectly identical. coturnix Egnorance Overload - The Panda's Thumb
He played the innings of a lifetime in Cape Town and bowled with verve and energy in each match. Times, Sunday Times
Jackson is being honored posthumously with the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award.
The cost of a tube is small compared with the cost of energy consumption over the lifetime of the tube.
For Chilean architects, this is the challenge of a lifetime—to preserve history and to build sensibly.
Writers' residuals for original programming on basic cable, ranging from series such as Lifetime Television's ‘Any Day Now’ to telepics for Disney Channel, will also be bumped up.
To have such a thing happen - when for a lifetime she had been a perfectly normal agnostic, like everybody else.
From the time the moderator gives the word, let's say it's "sesquipedalian," until your progeny very slowly spells it correctly, doesn't it seem a lifetime? Undefined
Francis was never known in his lifetime as anything higher than _Brother Francis_, and his community he insisted should be called the community of the lesser brethren -- _Fratres Minores_ -- for none could be or should be less than they. The Coming of the Friars
The only requirements are patience, a willingness to learn and a readiness to let go of the habits of a lifetime.
The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes.
It didn't come in his lifetime; a catalyst and a visionary, he seemed to be moving too fast to gain purchase on his value system.
This 11 mm hardened steel, double-locking padlock has 100,000 key variations and a lifetime guarantee.
If we ignore such factors as selection, panmixia, correlation, and the effects of use and disuse during lifetime, and still regard the case of the domestic duck as a valid proof of the inheritance of the effects of use and disuse, we must also accept it as an equally valid proof that the effects of use and disuse are _not_ inherited. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
Already a superstar in his lifetime, since his death in 1982, his stature has grown to mythic proportions.
Both authors combine a lifetime of clinical experience with a keen interest in research methodology.
The orchestra is governed by the musicians themselves, most of whom remain with the Philharmonic for a lifetime, closely protecting its artistic integrity.
The man who helped to create a president and a political dynasty died in April last year after a lifetime of achievement.
Best wishes for a lifetime of love and happiness.
There is a curious and perverse incentive in the very concept of a lifetime allowance. Times, Sunday Times
Cement stucco may last a building's lifetime if applied correctly.
A typical meat-eating animal welfare advocate is personally responsible for the slaughter of twenty-two warm-blooded animals per year, 1,500 in an average lifetime.
My lifetime aversion to raisins, sultanas and currants meant mince pies were out and the Christmas pudding, burning with blue flames after being doused in brandy, was nothing more than an interesting spectacle.
Even more revealing are statistics concerning the lifetime chances of going to prison.
How can they be swimming lifetime bests so late in the game?
Still we manage to spend whole lifetimes together based on such understandings.
They found that less than half of those with bipolar disorder -- also known as manic-depressive illness -- received mental health treatment during their lifetimes. FOXNews.com
It is a fond hope that there is a magical number at which all those people hostile to immigration will suddenly change the habit of a lifetime. Times, Sunday Times
Habitat is an old hand at changing habits of a lifetime.
The survey found that only about one of every four men had had ten or more sexual partners over their lifetime.
University seems half a lifetime away.
The next five years will involve an intense upswing - perhaps more intense than anything we've seen in our lifetimes.
Savers who exceed the annual or lifetime caps could face punitive tax charges. Times, Sunday Times
The mother I knew during my lifetime was a beautiful and vain woman, one who resisted having a mastectomy for breast cancer because she could not bear to be, as she put it, "mutilated" and "disfigured. We Remember - Eleanor Hatkin Freedman, 1924 - 1974
Michener never forgot the importance of his education - and spenta lifetime quietly helping others get theirs.
Only once in a lifetime that a special dream comes true. And suddenly your entire world seems beautiful and new. Best wishes always!
But for a one-volume guide to a man who did more in a single lifetime than most could manage in 10, this authoritative and readable book could hardly be bettered.
For decades the small but powerful unions of printers and pressmen had won rich contract settlements as well as expensive press manning clauses and lifetime job guarantees for the compositors displaced by computerized typesetting.
I doubt confiscation is going to be attempted in my lifetime, but we've already seen previous restrictions on new sales come and go and there are bills in the works that would expand upon the previous weapons and magazine restrictions. Obama Win Triggers Firearm-Sales Boom
In my lifetime, a period in which there has been radical changes in technology, I have not seen the sort of changes in attitudes that could support your position your reference about usury fails to take note of how much repugnancy has declined in the past three or four centuries. What Makes Health Care Different?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Many great minds have invested hours, years, careers and lifetimes debating whether God is within time (temporal), above and beyond time -- timeless (atemporal) -- or on God's own time (omnitemporal). Lavaille Lavette: God And Time: The Now We Live
Molly won a bronze medal in the 200 meter backstroke, swimming a lifetime best of 2:16.42.
One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherish the people you love.
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Mark Twain
It has the simple interpretation that treatment accelerates or decelerates the lifetime by a scale factor.
After a lifetime of poverty, his last few years were spent in comparable comfort.
Dog sledding is one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences insofar as if you have done it once you know better than to ever do it again. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
For me, this is the most stunning discovery in the field of herpetology during my lifetime. It's so utterly unexpected, so completely unexpected.
A federal court has upheld legislative term limits in Maine that do not have a lifetime ban.
The article returns discovery, in householder lifetime belongings is accumulated appeared two high peak value.
Sundram then must be confirmed to the lifetime appointment by the full Senate.
My sincere congratulations on your happy marriage and my best wishes to you two for a lifetime of happiness.
Some writers can spell and punctuate; some can't. Some writers will reveal a lifetime of experience; some will display a youthful naivety.
That sort of thing happens only once in a lifetime.
The lifetime of an speculator is measured in months, not years.
Begin by looking up to a man, prepare for a lifetime crick in your neck. SUMMER OF SECRETS
Has Rima, by that illicit act -- identifying herself with stripping, and hence prostitution and pornography, and by extension the oppression, degradation and exploitation of women, including sex trafficking, domestic violence, rape and other phallocentric crimes (Yes, I was throwing a Bindel there) -- Has Rima thrown away a lifetime of opportunity? Ruth Fowler: Rima, Carrie and Donald: Feminist Liberators
Would it not have been better for the remaining millions of British people if our all-powerful law machine had granted him a full pardon, together with an order never to set foot on British soil for the rest of his lifetime?
Final salary schemes are also being replaced by average lifetime earnings. Times, Sunday Times
But the lessons of a lifetime now served for naught; he could not dissociate himself from Joanna's pain. HERE BE DRAGONS
During Burns's own lifetime, books and poems were burned in Edinburgh's High street by the common hangmen.
Judges have lifetime appointments, can only be removed by a supermajority and most importantly, the perception that they are not party-minded is essential to the legitimacy of the government as a whole. Matthew Yglesias » If The Founders Had Wanted a Supermajority Requirement for the Senate, They Could Have Put One in the Constitution
The teenage years matter because it is then that lifetime habits are formed. Times, Sunday Times
He tried to remain calm, but it was hard to do when he was holding within him the secret of a lifetime, that he was in love with her daughter, a princess.
This does not diminish the lifetime achievements of a legendary lyricist, song stylist, or magnificent instrumentalist.
A once-in-a-lifetime chance to start a business of your own, for instance, may dictate staking everything you're worth on it.
We measured the chlorophyll fluorescence lifetimes of barley leaves preheated to selected temperatures corresponding to important points in the FTC.
The century plant blooms only once in its lifetime.
Then came an invitation to Martinique , an island in the French Caribbean. It was chance of a lifetime.
The Gallo family is the largest single lifetime contributor to Bob Dole, who is certain to be the Republican presidential nominee.
Michigan's no-fault insurance law provides unlimited lifetime coverage for medical expenses tied to auto wrecks.
I am from Alaska where the permafrost is now melting (” perma” frost – it never melts – but wait? huh? never? well the permafrost is melting now!) – something my grandparents (who also lived in Alaska) never saw in there lifetimes. Think Progress » Global Warming Skeptics Engage In Denial And Spin Over New Academy Report; Gore Responds
In the context of talking about a date during a junket in Lake Tahoe, Olivia told me that she really hadn't formed any romantic attachments at all in her lifetime.
It could result in a lifetime membership of misery and droopy mammaries.
REDLANDS - Donald Weber Leonard, a lifetime Redlands resident and active community member, died Thursday, March 19, in Redlands following a short illness. Undefined
Only once in a lifetime that a special dream comes true. And suddenly your entire world seems beautiful and new. Best wishes always!
In his lifetime he saw the English Church sway from extreme Puritanism to near Catholicism.
Leopards, lions, giraffes and hippopotami will parade before your camera lens to turn a bumpy Jeep ride into the trip of a lifetime.
As heir presumptive by Deed of Nomination registered with the Lyon Court, my Arms are debruised of a three point label during my father's lifetime.
They give us a fresh and more rounded view of a woman who in her lifetime carefully edited her works to create the character she wanted.
Sassy, brashy, with a tough exterior that belies her soft heart, Scarlett Adams is the kind of role that comes along once in a lifetime.
But the state Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 140 contains a lifetime ban, a decision binding on federal courts.
Of course, this is but a soupcon of the bonkersauce, compared to the tureen of same that Tancredo has amassed in his political lifetime. Tom Tancredo's Greatest Hits (VIDEO)
LiSAF is a kind of laser crystal with high efficiency, broad emission spectrum, and long lifetime.
A moment in heaven is infinitely pleasurable, so even if heaven lasts no longer than that, that moment outweighs a lifetime of Epicurean pleasures.
We propose an alternative measure of tax incidence that provides a practical compromise between the use of annual income and of lifetime income.
The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Mark Twain
The beam lifetime is an important parameter and it can affect the operation of the storage ring.
They seemed to be crawling in the tunnel for a lifetime before they found another grille.
The only way the insurer can guarantee a lifetime income without the risk of insolvency is by investing the premiums in ultra-safe instruments with a tiny rate of return and offering only a very small annual payment. Matthew Yglesias » The Other Public Sector Pension Problem
The prize money is bigger and the job of a lifetime is on the line. Times, Sunday Times
You said a lifetime, but stay for a while.
Despite a lifetime best in the 1,500m, Lee finished out of the medals.
When a standpat Republican politician abandons a lifetime of party regularity at 70 to come out in hearty praise of a Democratic President," the paper noted, "it is time for connoisseurs of the unusual to stand by and take notes. Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Upton Sinclair Fights Back Against Hollywood Scare Tactics
One of the pillars of Islamic faith, the Hajj must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by any Muslim who has the ability to do so.
“Shi dai fu wu” pronounced shr dye foo woo means serve in all lifetimes. Tao II
If she is seriously ill, it would be kind of logical that he might someday remarry, but it is really tacky to have the subject come up during her lifetime, if it did. Evening Buzz: John Edwards’ Love Child?
A guy had a whole table of laboratory glassware and I was able to cross an item off my list of lifetime goals: I now own a bell jar.
The lifetimes of the excited singlet states S1 of the organic biological macromolecules haematoporphyrin and lactoflavin were measured with streak camera.
One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherish the people you love.
Bill Harney has the gnarled hands and weathered hat of a lifetime's work with cattle.
My very best wishes to you for a lifetime of happiness.
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela
He only began his writings at the age of 52 and his ranting style of delivery, often on street corners to a puzzled audience, marked him out for a lifetime of ridicule and poverty.
A solemn vow, the most immense assertion of the will that any person makes in the course of a lifetime. Times, Sunday Times
A lifetime as a news reporter accustomed me to running sprints, turning out stories on tight deadlines.
Although she is prone to gain weight over her lifetime, at this point she doesn't have a ‘pot belly’ or ‘love handles,’ just nice womanly curves!
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
(Lifetime chose to call eps 13-22 of Blood Ties "season 2" -- which kind of confused some fans, and sort of bunged up the continuity we had going for the season long arcs, bu whatever.) Dead Things ON Sticks
An old Chinese myth "rebottled" like old wine in new skin, Lifetime Fairytale takes us on an emotional journey through both time and space. BroadwayWorld.com Boston Stories
Anybody who showed up down there right now with a key to the office and the electrical system would have guaranteed lifetime tenure in elective office around here. Jack Bog's Blog: July 2009 Archives
Deng Xiao Ping was rehabilitated several times throughout his lifetime
The tag will continue to identify and provide valuable information about a tagged fish throughout its lifetime without the need to rehandle the fish.
These dreams led them to a lifetime of risk-taking adventure, and ultimately the women came to learn of each other's exploits.
Of a total of 55 participants with complete data, 43 reported a lifetime affective disorder.
You can embrace your fears and become a timid, dispirited, wounded person for years—perhaps for a lifetime—or you can reject your dread and believe what God has said to be true. Recovering From Religious Abuse
It serves Pryor well because it gives him a shot at a lifetime appointment to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a position he already holds on a temporary basis.
A broad panorama of the triumphs and follies of humanity, an exploration of the quirks of the mind, of the nobility but more often the meanness and sheer malevolence of human nature, the collection was knit together by a web of self-consistent thinking, a skein of ideas woven from a lifetime of close reasoning on life, art, and literature. William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
The immaculate state of the garden bears testament to a lifetime's effort.
A wok – also from asian supermarket (spun springy steel) (never from Myer or DJs or wherever) once properly seasoned and never washed in detergent or with other than a brush might last a lifetime too! Reduce kitchen clutter by buying multi-purpose tools | Lifehacker Australia
Well, since the "clustering" of water only lasts for a few picoseconds, making an eye-blink seem like a lifetime in comparison, the matter is moot, anyway.
Marriage is no longer always seen as a lifetime commitment.
But a lifetime of qualitative research on my part has shown this to be far from universally the case. Times, Sunday Times
Automated capabilities such as multivariable testing (MVT), segmentation and targeting, product recommendations, and advanced analytics provide advanced functions that increase conversion rates, sales, customer engagement and lifetime value while automating processes to lower costs and increase marketing agility. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
You let the chance of a lifetime slip by.
You say me is you a lifetime of devotion, don't belong to love.
The large bandwidths of the bands reflected the short lifetime of these states due to fast exciton relaxation.
How could it possibly improve its incredibly durable, absolutely leakproof, lifetime-guaranteed bottles?
The good and the bad parts of our lives do not interlock with reassuring neatness across the course of a lifetime; instead they sit together in heterogeneous disarray, elbowing one another like distant ancestors told to bunch up tight for a family photograph. On Reading Zen « Tales from the Reading Room
Prestigious food awards have brought her best-chef gongs and pelted her with Lifetime Achievement titles.
Most obviously, an early redaction of material already assembled in the Prophet's lifetime would inspire considerable confidence in our text of the Koran.
But an Israeli rabbi, who spent a lifetime searching for the lost tribes, brought 40 Mizo converts to Israel as tourists and enrolled them in a rabbinical school.
While the Oscar felt more like a lifetime achievement award, the role invested Hepburn with the kind of humanity and concern for family that helped contradict her late-career screen image.
Over a lifetime an average worker is employed by six companies and has to change career twice. The Sun
I have had enough obloquy for one lifetime.
This removed land in intestate estates from the repercussions of primogeniture and stipulated a division along the same lines as chattels: one-third to the widow for her lifetime, ultimately to devolve to the children of the marriage; two-thirds equally divided among the children. Gutenber-e Help Page
| News | Telegraph: The average Briton spends more than �4,000 on books during his or her lifetime but nearly half of them remain unread, a new study claims. Archive 2007-03-11
In his lifetime, he became a symbol of courage to a deprived country, the underdog in all his fights and still coming out on top.
We aim to stamp out poverty in our lifetimes.
A local variable's lifetime begins when control enters the procedure in which it is declared.
Unlike the subliterate cretin presently occupying the White House, Carter was one of the few presidents of my lifetime who was a consistently impressive extemporaneous speaker. McCain: Obama Would Equal Carter's Second Term
Read in studio Weightlifter Andrew Saxton is tonight hopeful that he won't now face a lifetime ban from his sport.
But all I experience are the symptoms of withdrawal from the self I have labored a lifetime to create -- what the medieval Cistercians called "the land of unlikeness" hiding the true self that Scripture says is created in God's image. Retreat Into Silence
Winston rods are made by hand in Twin Bridges, MT, unlike Orvis and their $775 Helios, which is made in China, and they have the same "lifetime" warranty as Orvis, or any other rod that inevitably falls short of a true work of art from R.L. WINSTON ROD CO. WINSTON BORON IIX RODS
During a lifetime, the gap in earnings potential between a high school diploma and a baccalaureate degree is more than $1 million.
Mortality does not, however, take lifetime risk into consideration.
The 47-year-old had all her teeth removed because of gum disease and faced a lifetime of wearing uncomfortable dentures. The Sun
People whose partners snore lose almost two years' sleep during their lifetime, according to research. Times, Sunday Times
She is so excited about her trip of a lifetime next month she has already packed her case.
There was once a moment,we misunderstood it was a lifetime.
In front of him was one of the most gruesome scenes he had ever seen in his lifetime.
Whether Proposition 140 imposes a lifetime ban was a major issue discussed by the state Supreme Court in 1991.
According to Kelly, his biographer, he was slowly being poisoned to death by low-level carbon monoxide, resulting from a lifetime of cooking over a charcoal in close, unventilated quarters.
Kim Bensen, a lifetime yo-yo dieter who lost more than 200 pounds, currently leads motivational weight loss meetings at Calvary Church in Trumbull at 6:30, Wednesday nights. Kim Bensen: Samantha: One Woman's Weight Loss Journey
If you're born a Scorpio, you've come into this lifetime to deal with a backload of old emotional wounds (perhaps from other lifetimes - or this one) that need to be purified and transformed. Scorpio New Moon, November 16-17, 2009
She has given half a lifetime to her local dioceses and been a staunch support for women hoping to join her in the ministry. Times, Sunday Times
The Irish were no better able than others to comprehend Ulysses, and only those gullible enough to answer the author's snobbish call for a lifetime's dedication to scholia could begin to penetrate the double darknesses of Finnegans Wake.
Annuals are flowers that bloom only once; their whole lifetime lasts just one growing season.
The tax benefits of marriage are not confined to a couple's lifetime. Times, Sunday Times
Goethe viewed the debate rather detachedly, he was, during his lifetime, fast becoming the German Klas - siker or at least one of the two great Klassiker. CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
In the cultural anthropology perspective, the pilgrimage every Muslim lifetime of a typical "transitional protocol" is a change in the status of the Muslim community identity and a religious ritual.
Some backers of the initiative feared that a lifetime ban would make the measure easier to overturn later.
During Isabelle Russell's lifetime, she and her husband had shared the big front bedroom.
Tim Pawlenty, that using taxpayer money to buy the easements is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that should not be missed because a corporation half-a-world away can change its mind at any time. StarTribune.com rss feed
And that was the oddest thing of all - nobody could recall having encountered a group of better-dressed farmers and crofters in their long lifetimes.
I want to take advantage of your lifetime of scholarship.
It describes a lifetime, Mick's own lifetime, spent attending the races and punting on dogs and horses with varying degrees of success.
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
This is the crowning insult to a lifetime of perceived slights and insults, which exist nowhere but in his head.
One of my elder brothers views it as a lifetime commitment. Times, Sunday Times
If not, he's faced with undoing a lifetime's worth of assumptions.
The average woman will have 30 different hairstyles during her lifetime. Times, Sunday Times
Impressed with this convergency of testimony from so many different quarters, they will be utterly at a loss to account for the unanimity of these early witnesses -- all sharing in the same delusion, all ignorant that a false Mark has been silently substituted for the true Mark during their own lifetime, and consequently assuming as an indisputable fact that the false Mark was received by the Church from the beginning. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
This can result in the concept of overdiagnosis, which is the detection of latent disease that would not have been diagnosed in the patient's lifetime if screening for cancer had not taken place. Health News from Medical News Today
Her ideal combination of "paid worker, parent, community member, self-improver and pleasure-seeker" would indeed be wonderful, and should naturally apply to both sexes, but it sounds more like the achievements of a lifetime than a realistic picture of the years with young children, however evenly the parenting is split. Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality by Rebecca Asher – review
I am hard-working, conscientious, honest and have a lifetime of experience to offer.
The fertility rate measures the average number of children women aged 15 to 49 will have in their lifetime.
She was given the award for a lifetime of public service.
This usage ‘problem’ applies also to vaccines for childhood illnesses, where the total lifetime demand is strictly limited to a fixed number of doses per child.
Happy, is looks for a warm person for a lifetime.
One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherish the people you love.
His point, a valid one, is that clinical trials have tended to get longer, larger, and more expensive, while patent lifetimes aren't changing.
Read in studio Weightlifter Andrew Saxton is tonight hopeful that he won't now face a lifetime ban from his sport.
He was 78 and one of the last of a breed of underworld figures who became a figure of criminal folklore in his own lifetime. Times, Sunday Times
Yet in his lifetime the horse was of course as much a problem for Stubbs's reputation as it was the cornerstone of his artistic practice.
Celestite will also assist initiates in uncovering lifetimes that one's soul has had in the sea such as within the dolphin and whale species, and communing with such species in present time.
Nearly a lifetime's worth of disappointment had transformed Anders into a parody of his younger self.
There is no need to think that you are sentenced to a lifetime of unhappiness.

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