Words similar to life-and-death

Example sentences for: life-and-death

How can you use “life-and-death” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

With no celebrity ailment too inconsequential to mine for dramatic potential, Friends star Courteney Cox's routine LASIK surgery to correct her nearsightedness is treated with the kind of life-and-death anguish usually reserved for quadruple bypass operations and liver transplants.
There are so many needing help, each with a compelling and sometimes life-and-death story.
And everyone, I thought, knew the difference between the columns in which Royko would create a situation to make a broad point and the columns in which he was talking about flesh-and-blood people and life-and-death matters.
Literature comes from people's obsession with universal life-and-death themes such as kinship, danger, and rivalry.
The ability to taste food is a life-and-death matter.