breath of life
Example Sentences
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Despite the lack of business investment in the market after the war, Brixton was given a new breath of life with the arrival of HMS Windrush in 1948.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2023
Wilson thinks of them as the sound of “the breath of life, the soul living on.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022
I mean that she endows objects and animals with anima, the breath of life.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2021
Those nose wiggles will “literally breathe that breath of life into the characters,” Hanson said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2019
The first gulp of icy lake water felt like the breath of life.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
