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
“I told him the old Woody Allen line that half the battle of life is just showing up,” Lavin said.
From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2010
When the year 1826 came, it saw him Professor of Chemistry at the Athenæum, and married to the lady whom he loved, and who has ever since fought the battle of life by his side.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
