life-giving

Example Sentences

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In “Free” and elsewhere—her public lectures, for instance—she’s made plain her distaste for capitalism, a system that a majority of Albanians today associate with liberty but also with life-giving light after long years of darkness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

There were folks in the audience who didn’t think that was anything to laugh at; the unmistakably sour expression on James Burrows’ face as Rogen skipped to the stage was life-giving.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2025

She’s a natural with the animals, though, her presence as calming to them as theirs is life-giving to her.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

But those planets are far away from our life-giving Sun.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2025

By the time we reach Pluto, we have come so far that the Sun–our dear, warm, skin-tanning, life-giving Sun–has shrunk to the size of a pinhead.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson