nine lives
Example Sentences
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They gave life — nine lives — to our rarely running cement eyesore.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024
It’s likely that other similar situations have given rise to the adage that cats have nine lives.
From Scientific American • Jul. 24, 2023
Those and other Labor Day blazes burned more than 1.2 million acres in Oregon, destroyed upward of 5,000 homes and structures, and claimed nine lives.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 12, 2023
He has nine lives, to mix all the possible metaphors about a survivor in politics.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2023
“Lamont, this cannot go on. Even a cat has only nine lives, and we don’t have that many.”
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
