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
He’s also the most plausibly human figure in a show that in key areas lacks the breath of life.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2018
But to feel that there were feelings denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
