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
It was the last breath of life for Granada.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2023
Wilson thinks of them as the sound of “the breath of life, the soul living on.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2022
This description may sound a little dry, and indeed you shouldn’t read “A Fortnight in September” expecting anything particularly dramatic to happen, as nothing does — except, perhaps, the gentle breath of life itself.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2021
The congregation gasps, asif an unseen bellows were blowing the very breath of life into them.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
