fact of life
Example Sentences
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“It’s just the way it is. It’s a fact of life.”
From Los Angeles Times
He lives in a "hacker-house", a shared living and workspace, where he and his colleagues continually swap ideas, and believes working long hours is just a fact of life.
From BBC
Despite leaning old in years, it’s a coalition marked by an immature inability to accept a basic fact of life: that the kids today aren’t going to like the same stuff you enjoyed as a kid.
From Salon
Christmas week sparked a Santa Claus rally, but a stock market that’s posted three straight years of above-average gains will have to wrestle with a simple fact of life—it’s incredibly hard to stay perfect.
From Barron's
Christmas week sparked a Santa Claus rally, but a stock market that’s posted three straight years of above-average gains will have to wrestle with a simple fact of life—it’s incredibly hard to stay perfect.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
