breath of life
Example Sentences
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Despite the lack of business investment in the market after the war, Brixton was given a new breath of life with the arrival of HMS Windrush in 1948.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2023
“It’s the breath of life, to show that their spirits go on,” she said in an interview.
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2022
Those nose wiggles will “literally breathe that breath of life into the characters,” Hanson said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2019
“As long as I have a breath of life, I will keep opposing this.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 18, 2014
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
