lifeline

Example Sentences

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I feel like Gabi’s offering me a lifeline, and I take it.

From Literature

Across the region, thousands of flights have been grounded in some of the world’s busiest airports, shipping disruptions have severed key trade and energy lifelines, and stock markets have plunged.

From The Wall Street Journal

Which may explain why cast members keep talking about it like it was a lifeline, not a luxury.

From Salon

The injunction came ahead of an Israeli deadline for 37 well-known organisations to stop work, something the groups warn will remove a lifeline for vulnerable people and cause "irreparable harm".

From BBC

While in the kitchen, Catherine spoke about the importance of The Hanging Gardens and described places like it as "a lifeline to so many people in the community".

From BBC