Life in a sentence as a noun

My father recently died and while things like these may trigger some slight pain, that's just life.

I've been nearsighted all my life, and once you hit 40 years old you stop being able to see things up close.

It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal.

All of the things I've listed I've done and it only made life difficult until I left for college.

I mean, they're still afraid of that; it's pretty much part of daily life there, working for the Dread Pirate Bezos and all.

You don't know me, my life, my past, my future, my dreams, my fears, my hopes, my goals or a goddamned other thing about me.

So font selection becomes this life-or-death thing: it can lock you out of the product completely.

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

I don't relish the idea of building a company and then selling it... but life is more complicated than that.

Naming and shaming Carmen M. Ortiz for destroying the life of a young man is exactly what is necessary.

And life is a series of tradeoffs and a constant balancing act between doing what is best for us right now versus what is best for the future.

But this is a very serious situation and if left unchecked it may damage the potential for you to do good work for the rest of your life.

As they gather huge amounts of power, their purpose in life becomes to guard that power jealously and to increase it as opportunities permit.

But they understand platforms as a purely accidental outgrowth of having started life in the business of providing platforms.

We thought, given the implications for such things as life extension, that it was pretty funny to have the speakers literally preaching from the pulpit with the listeners sitting in the church pews.

We chatted about the amazing implications of nanotechnology to change everything about human life.

Life definitions

noun

a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"

noun

the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"

See also: living

noun

the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others"

noun

the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"

See also: animation living aliveness

noun

the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life"

See also: lifetime life-time lifespan

noun

the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life"

noun

the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"

noun

a living person; "his heroism saved a life"

noun

animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"

See also: liveliness spirit sprightliness

noun

living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life"

noun

the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones; "there is no life on the moon"

noun

an account of the series of events making up a person's life

See also: biography

noun

a motive for living; "pottery was his life"

noun

a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard"