lifetime
Example Sentences
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For about five minutes, which he says felt like a lifetime, Abdullah held him there until police arrived.
From BBC
In Perpetua’s lifetime, Christians were a tiny and sometimes persecuted minority, but after the conversion of Emperor Constantine in the early fourth century, the Roman Empire came under Christian rule.
Her transplanted liver, however, is expected to last for the rest of her lifetime.
From Science Daily
It’s hard to know how many people have been saddled with this lifetime burden.
From MarketWatch
It’s hard to know how many people have been saddled with this lifetime burden.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
