fact of life

Example Sentences

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But on the new album, the group treats contention as a fact of life: serious, even heartbreaking, but not the end of the story.

From New York Times

And if we're going to be disappeared, is there a way to make that positive and not a terrible experience since it's just a basic fact of life as a racialized minority?

From Salon

For Craig Gnos, 56, president of the decades-old Solano County business that grows tomatoes used for processing, counting costs is a fact of life.

From Washington Post

Steve Arno, a former research forester at the Rocky Mountain Research Station, argued for accepting fire, not fighting it tooth and nail: “Fire will continue to be a fact of life in our forests, but … we can influence the way fire affects our forest by managing its structure and its fuel using mechanical treatments, fuel removal, pile burning, and prescribed fire.”

From Los Angeles Times

Narrated by a Mexican “beach boy” for whom exploitation is a fact of life, this perspective is perhaps the most unsettling one you’ll inhabit while reading “After the Sun.”

From Seattle Times