leading a life
Example Sentences
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On the surface, it is a love story between Hal and Madge, but underneath it’s a meditation on class, yearning, broken dreams, and the nearly insurmountable obstacles to leading a life of meaning and purpose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
It has been a rapid rise for Nunez and he finds himself leading a life that would have been completely unrecognisable to the boy who looked at older brother Junior as his hero.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2022
Even as Dowdell battled mental illness and homelessness, leading a life in and out of jail, mental institutions and on the street, the siblings would talk by phone a few times per year.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2022
York was a paraplegic since 1988 but his disability didn’t stop him from leading a life of positivity while inspiring those around him with his outgoing and uplifting approach to life.
From Fox News ● May 24, 2021
First, his purpose of leading a life of perfect and heroic holiness had been put to flight; then followed his purpose of leading a life of holiness of a more easy, comfortable, and bourgeois sort.
From Pepita Ximenez by Valera, Juan
