that's life

Example Sentences

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And the whole business proves, happily, to have a lot of heart — broken sometimes, but that’s life, even in Toontown.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Phillipson replied: "Yeah completely, but you know that's life."

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

The latest act in the play that’s life in downtown Los Angeles greeted me when I parked at a Chinatown lot Wednesday afternoon:

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2025

It’s modest compared with the residences of all my Sims, and every bill and breakage leaves me wishing I could just type rosebud and make it go away—but that’s life.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2024

"To be what one may be, really and efficaciously," Nash went on, "to feel it and understand it, to accept it, adopt it, embrace it—that's conduct, that's life."

From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry