lifetime

Definition:
1. The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death).

Use 'lifetime' in a sentence:

• 1. To me, the basic training was a lifetime of challenges that lasted six months.
• 2. But in all, only 150 cans will be used up over the cat's lifetime – and we'll still have 100 left over for the next cat ．
• 3. Where would you like to see this larger body go during your lifetime?
• 4. I've spent a lifetime fighting against racism and prejudice.
• 5. The brain is a seemingly endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime's knowledge.
• 6. After all, where else can you leave school with a decent degree — but without a lifetime of debt?
• 7. Works of art are in trust to us during our lifetime.
• 8. It would require more than a lifetime.
• 9. You've given a lifetime of service to athletics.
• 10. There were heavy debts. It would take half Edward's lifetime to work them off.
• 11. Eighteen months ago, I was diagnosed with throat cancer, the result of a lifetime of smoking.
• 12. But in his lifetime, Car ê me, ever confident, could see beyond his short domination in the kitchen.
• 13. Fuel shortage isn't something that's going to happen in the year dot within the lifetime of the youngest of us.
• 14. It was a lifetime experience.
• 15. During my lifetime I haven't got around to much travelling.
• 16. Dog-fighting victims are tortured and killed for profit and "sport," yet their criminal abusers often receive a minimal sentence for causing a lifetime of pain.
• 17. She wrote, to be exact, eleven novels in her lifetime.
• 18. Parachuting will give you the rush of a lifetime.
• 19. He endured all kinds of hardships in his lifetime.
• 20. All jazz lovers should come to the Montreal International Jazz Festival at least once in a lifetime.
• 21. In a throwaway economy, you would throw away 5,475 cans over the cat's 15 – year lifetime ．
• 22. He said, "People need a lifetime to learn how to live a good life like loving everybody and being nice, right?"
• 23. These are words which may not be seen again in a lifetime of reading.
• 24. Banding the birds allows us to track them over their lifetime.
• 25. He wrote many books during his lifetime.
• 26. Our lifetime is short, so we should make good use of it.
• 27. Confucius educated about 3,000 students in his lifetime.
• 28. Having spent a lifetime avidly courting publicity, Paul has suddenly become secretive.
• 29. Short lifetime means uncertain mass.
• 30. Say's writings reached a wide audience during his lifetime.
• 31. The world has turned topsy-turvy in my lifetime.
• 32. Americans are less doubtful when it comes to politics: 73% expect to see a female president in their lifetime.
• 33. Though Vivaldi had earned a great deal in his lifetime, his extravagance was such that he died in poverty.
• 34. I treasure my family and friends, and hope that we will share a loving and caring lifetime together.
• 35. They may influence people for years, and even for a lifetime.
• 36. We need to continue to value broad preparation in thinking skills that will serve for a lifetime.
• 37. They found that just one tree can save a city hundreds of dollars over its lifetime.
• 38. I want to take advantage of your lifetime of scholarship.
• 39. In his lifetime, Hutton patented 244 inventions.
• 40. After all, where else can you leave school with a decent degree—but without a lifetime of debt?
• 41. In his lifetime, Marconi foresaw the development of television and the fax machine, GPS, radar, and the portable hand-held telephone.
• 42. His diary was not published during his lifetime.
• 43. In many cases this realizable wealth is not realized during the lifetime of the home owner.
• 44. By some studies, selective schools do enhance their graduates' lifetime earnings.
• 45. She was a legend in her own lifetime.
• 46. The cruise was advertised as the 'journey of a lifetime'.
• 47. An opportunity like this comes once in a lifetime.
• 48. Their lack of qualifications condemned them to a lifetime of boring, usually poorly-paid work.
• 49. It continues to be the mission of a lifetime.
• 50. The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.
• 51. Without the atlas each researcher could spend a lifetime trying to gather complete gene-expression data for his or her work.