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:

The ability to taste food is a life-and-death matter.
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.
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.
There are so many needing help, each with a compelling and sometimes life-and-death story.