How to Use from life in a Sentence
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An amazing thing that novelists can do is take us away from life — give us relief from life, particularly our own — while putting life right in our face.
— Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024 -
Two of Leo’s former students have come to his house to film an interview with him—essentially an exit interview from life.
— Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Everything in the show is a fiction, even if it’s drawn from life.
— Michael Paulson, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023 -
But for many of its residents, Hillview Court is a reprieve from life on the streets.
— Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024 -
That felt important to me, to write about art not just from the context of grad school, but from life.
— Hazlitt, 31 May 2023 -
The firestorm ended up claiming her home and her trunks full of pictures and records from life abroad.
— Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2023 -
When you’re haunted by something scary, that takes you away from life.
— Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 24 Jan. 2023 -
Plan a day of self-care for her: Your friend may need an escape from life’s pressures or ups and downs.
— Dominique Fluker, Essence, 5 Feb. 2024 -
Heche, 53, was removed from life support and died Aug. 14, nine days after the fiery crash.
— Eric Leonard, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022 -
To take food off the table is to remove an element of joy from life.
— Lisa Shah, STAT, 28 Mar. 2024 -
But on March 26 at 11 a.m., Maisie was removed from life support.
— Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024 -
Levi, the 3-year-old son of Kallie and rodeo star Spencer Wright, died on June 2 after he was removed from life support.
— Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 23 June 2024 -
Life in the Donbas has long differed radically from life in the rest of Ukraine.
— Melinda Haring, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019 -
Keisha The feisty girlfriend of Bundy who wants more from life and her relationship.
— Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Nov. 2023 -
The child was declared brain dead and removed from life support Friday evening.
— Isaac Yu, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2022 -
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are getting back to work after each having a hiatus from life on the road.
— Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024 -
Overall, this is a gift from life, which is this meant, our children being taken care of by the jungle.
— Kate Perez, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023 -
The arrangement got Echols off death row and freed Baldwin and Misskelley from life sentences.
— John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2023 -
Sometimes broken, but always strong and eager to learn from life.
— Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2022 -
The art is partly very spontaneous, an excerpt from life.
— Laura Parker, Forbes, 18 May 2022 -
Instead of worrying about the here and now, give yourself permission to check out from life.
— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2024 -
Ellie spared her best friend, Riley, from life as a zombie with a single bullet in Episode 7.
— Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2023 -
Unlike his ascetic approach, she's found ways to suck the marrow from life and is the only one able to emphasize his own hypocrisy.
— EW.com, 10 Nov. 2023 -
The items range from life vests and lost boots to cookware and discarded toys, all once used by those journeying across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.
— Alessandro Clemente, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2023 -
The other $10 million is a loan from life sciences lender Oxford Finance.
— Dallas News, 14 Nov. 2022 -
Life with a partner is different, clearly, from life alone.
— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023 -
At other times, Dad’s feuds concerned the importance to fiction of reports from life.
— Alexandra Wolfe, Harper's Magazine, 28 Sep. 2023 -
Both men want more from life than they've been allotted, and both will be disappointed.
— The Week Staff, The Week, 5 Aug. 2023 -
The infant's family had been weighing whether to remove him from life support, but the child died of a severe brain injury.
— USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024 -
Angela suffered a seizure and was declared brain-dead on March 15 and later removed from life support.
— Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2023
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