lifetime
Example Sentences
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Consider the long simmer over Pete Rose’s lifetime baseball ban, which held firm until it was lifted…months after his death.
After what feels like a lifetime of minutes dragging by, she gets up to go finish cleaning the rest of the rooms.
From Literature
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Coal had been the recipient of lots of smiles from adults behind desks in his lifetime.
From Literature
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But she was all smiles, walking away with memories of a lifetime and the money to buy a few things long on her wish list.
From Barron's
The initiative will have a lifetime value of $542 billion, Buck estimated.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.