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Example sentences for: lifeblood

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Since L.A. is a savage desert hellscape not fit for human life, it has to suck its lifeblood, Scream, Blacula, Scream -style, from the whole western half of the continent.
The port was the lifeblood of the city at that time and ships would sail right into the heart of Amstelredamme, as it was then known.
But Microsoft's lifeblood is its employee stock-option program, and so the stock price is, in a sense, one of the fundamentals.
But tourism is the country’s modern lifeblood, and not just as a result of our insatiable thirst for history.
For centuries, fishing has been the Algarve’s lifeblood.