How to Use life-giving in a Sentence
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The benefit of a swarm is that some can break down, and the life-giving mining will continue.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
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Until that point, humans had never been able to recreate the life-giving power generated in the center of our Sun on Earth.
—Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
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One of the property’s coolest features is an outdoor structure designed to celebrate the life-giving energy of the sun.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2024
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The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble.
—Denise Chow, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024
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The churning of the ocean was an event, famous in Hindu literature, in which the devas, or deities, and the asuras, or demonic beings, joined forces to acquire a life-giving substance called amrita that had sunk to the ocean floor.
—Jeffery D. Long, The Conversation, 11 July 2023
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When Beverly enters the space, encased in shadow but punctuated by the glow of its life-giving instruments, Elliot is lying on the floor.
—Vulture, 4 May 2023
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Women have life-giving power, women have medicine, women have innate strength, women have the ability to commune with Mother Earth, right?
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
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His skills enable English-speaking readers access to Arikawa’s gentle, snarky, aloof, life-giving furry heroes.
—Terry Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
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To southern Arizona’s original inhabitants, the Sky Islands are a place of healing and life-giving energy.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
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An accurate map of the icy areas can help planetary scientists distinguish between different ways water moves across the lunar surface, and learn how the life-giving compound got there in the first place.
—Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2023
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Federal authorities are investigating the killing of five wild burros who were found shot to death near life-giving springs on the western edge of Death Valley National Park, where 20-mule teams once pulled wagons of borax.
—Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
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For such a life-giving planet, Earth’s environmental systems, which include everything from ocean currents and storms to heat waves and ice flows, are delicately balanced.
—Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
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In a world where everyone wants to be so self-reliant, Godden shows us through her novels the life-giving beauty of strong personal connection, particularly from parents and teachers.
—Sarah Schutte, National Review, 21 Jan. 2024
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The waters that live underground also provide life-giving water in another direction.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2023
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The basic, life-giving joy of hobbies like gallery-viewing may be unavailable to us, but seeing versions of these experiences represented by our community continues to be a heartening, life-giving force.
—Vanessa Labi, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
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