lifer

Example Sentences

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"I know I'm a football fan and a Wrexham lifer because I'm inconsolable when we lose," said Reynolds.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

Snead is a scouting and player personnel lifer but also something of a renaissance man.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia are lifer clerks in an obscure, long-outmoded office in London.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

He will be succeeded by John Furner, a Walmart lifer who worked his way up from the shop floor and now serves as head of the company's US business.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025

Most of the juvenile lifer cases we handled involved clients who shared Evan's confusion about their adolescent behavior.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson