lifeline

Example Sentences

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But they appear to be warming to it again now that the company says it’s received a $120 million lifeline from producer Byron Allen.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

Meet the union representative acting as a lifeline for sailors trapped at sea since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

For Gulf producers, it is their economic lifeline.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

Building up a man whose appetite, whose isolation, whose just general hunger to dominate, making that character and then giving him this one lifeline to humanity in Vanessa — that’s all calculated.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Three days old, but my only lifeline to American baseball scores.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin