battle of life
Example Sentences
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"Really it was a battle of life and death," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
The artwork shows what Stretford-born Lowry, who died in 1976, described as the "battle of life".
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2024
Then from Christmas, when Hope was born, to the New Year, when we marshal our armies to fight the battle of life again.
From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2012
“I told him the old Woody Allen line that half the battle of life is just showing up,” Lavin said.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2010
I had no heart to speak; I faltered some miserable, perhaps petulant excuse, stole away, and the first battle of life was lost.
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.
