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
Mrs. Richard Maule, sitting there in the library of Rede Place, faced that fact with the cool, calculating courage which was perhaps her chief asset in the battle of life.
From Jane Oglander by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
