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:

  • The ability to taste food is a life-and-death matter.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Literature comes from people's obsession with universal life-and-death themes such as kinship, danger, and rivalry.

  • There are so many needing help, each with a compelling and sometimes life-and-death story.


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