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.
