battle of life
Example Sentences
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"Really it was a battle of life and death," she says.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
The artwork shows what Stretford-born Lowry, who died in 1976, described as the "battle of life".
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2024
“You have got to do your very best every day because this is a battle of life versus death.”
From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2021
Then from Christmas, when Hope was born, to the New Year, when we marshal our armies to fight the battle of life again.
From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2012
I had no heart to speak; I faltered some miserable, perhaps petulant excuse, stole away, and the first battle of life was lost.
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.
