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Synonyms for life-and-death


Grammar : Adj
Spell : lahyf-uh n-deth
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlaɪf ənˈdɛθ

Top 10 synonyms for life-and-death Other synonyms for the word life-and-death

Définition of life-and-death

  • adj extremely important
Example sentences :
  • In the achievement of any relationship we are involved in a life-and-death struggle.
  • Extract from : « Herein is Love » by Reuel L. Howe
  • England was hard pressed in life-and-death struggle with Napoleon.
  • Extract from : « Canada: the Empire of the North » by Agnes C. Laut
  • Next moment the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle.
  • Extract from : « The Myths of the North American Indians » by Lewis Spence
  • This would seem to indicate a life-and-death matter in the message.
  • Extract from : « The Covenant of Salt » by Henry Clay Trumbull
  • He will be constrained to make a life-and-death struggle to save his old beard.
  • Extract from : « The Lion of Janina » by Mr Jkai
  • Was it a life-and-death struggle for ascendancy in the western world?
  • Extract from : « The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte » by William Milligan Sloane
  • She, too, had yielded to the madness of a life-and-death struggle.
  • Extract from : « The Day of Wrath » by Louis Tracy
  • Be just as careful as if it was a life-and-death matter, will you?
  • Extract from : « Cabin Fever » by B. M. Bower
  • And thus the mass of the people were always in a life-and-death struggle with poverty.
  • Extract from : « The Jungle » by Upton Sinclair
  • Nay, if they were in life-and-death earnest, what could it avail you in such a case?
  • Extract from : « Latter-Day Pamphlets » by Thomas Carlyle
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