Use the word live in a sentence

Examples of how to use the word “live” in a sentence. How to connect “live” with other words to make correct English sentences.

live (v): (to continue) to be alive or have life

Use “live” in a sentence

They lived in a cottage when they traveled to that town.
Our kids don’t want to live in the countryside.
His high salary enabled him to live in comfort.
I will try to live up to your expectations.
I lived on a farm when I was a kid.
Generally speaking, women live longer than men.
I live on the ground floor.
He lives at the top of the hill.
I want to live on that island.
I can’t live without you.
Do you know where he lives?
We used to live in London.
He lives alone and often feels lonely.
He lived a moral life.
Although she lives nearby, I rarely see her.

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Synonym: dwell, exist, house, inhabit, occupy, reside, room, stay. Antonym: dead, die. Similar words: liver, live out, live on, deliver, live up to, live with, delivery, oblivious. Meaning: [lɪv]  v. 1. inhabit or live in 2. lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style 3. continue to live; endure or last 4. support oneself 5. have life, be alive 6. have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations 7. pursue a positive and satisfying existence. adj. 1. actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing 2. exerting force or containing energy 3. possessing life 4. highly reverberant 5. charged with an explosive 6. elastic; rebounds readily 7. abounding with life and energy 8. in current use or ready for use 9. of current relevance 10. charged or energized with electricity 11. capable of erupting. adv. not recorded. 

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1. Eat to live, but not live to eat. 

2. Live not to eat, but eat to live. 

3. Marry in lent, and you’ll live to repent. 

3. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

4. Man does not live by bread alone. 

5. Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. 

6. He that cannot ask cannot live

7. Better die with honour than live with shame. 

8. It matters not how long we live but how. 

9. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. 

10. Better die standing than live kneeling. 

11. Better to die in glory than live in dishonour. 

12. One should eat to live, not live to eat. 

13. They who live longest will see most. 

14. They that live longest must die at last. 

15. Lovers live by love, as larks live by leeks. 

16. They that (or who) live longest see most. 

17. Live for today for tomorrow never comes. 

18. Medicines are not meant to live on. 

19. Live to learn and learn to live. 

20. They die well that live well. 

21. They who live in a worryInvite death in a hurry. 

22. To live is to function. That is all there is in living. 

23. We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress. 

24. ’Tis altogether vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolishly. 

25. Other men live to eat, while I eat to live. 

26. To live long is almost everyone’s wish, but to live well is the ambitiion of a few. 

27. See, listen, and be silent, and you will live in peace. 

28. Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it. Charles Caleb Colton 

29. No man is so old, but thinks he may yet live another year. 

30. Tell not all you know nor judge of all you see if you would live in peace. 

More similar words: liver, live out, live on, deliver, live up to, live with, delivery, oblivious, the cost of living, five, give, drive, dived, give off, thrive, motive, give up, give in, derive, give out, give way, native, driver, active, give away, driveway, drive up, receive, diverse, massive. 

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It was fun to visit but boring to live in


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live a life that is not reflecting the advantage or benefits


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this year that will move you forward towards achieving the life that you want to live? Just achieve a simple goal that you haven’t done yet


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He did not live to see all


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have to live this way because I real y don’t know how long I have to


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I was just telling you about Kulai, but the home we live in is what I always wanted but didn’t dare aspire to, even as an Angel


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No one is poor who has land he can live on


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success in their life, have everything they ever wanted, create the life they want to live, do the things they need to do to achieve everything they want to achieve are different? Are you telling me they have more time than you?


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other child of God to live in a surviving state rather than


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activity? How can I use my time more effectively in order to create and live the life I want? How about those little times that we talked about, like putting something in the microwave

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He was the brother of the owner of the hotel where I live


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· You can live without sex, but not without glasses


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dump your friends, and go live with the monks at the top of the mountain because you want inner peace


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and they continue to not live up to those expectations, how long are you going to put up with those inconsistencies in your life? How long are you going to put up with broken expectations from someone else in your life?


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need to expect yourself to live with integrity


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Here is the best way to live your life when it comes to your expectations of commitment and integrity


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Live your own life in that way and you will influence those


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around you to live with more commitment and integrity


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If your ideal life is living in a way that spending time with your children is everything to you, then you have to create your life in a way that allows you to live a life that is one hundred percent dedicated to your


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When you don’t live with commitment and integrity, your life is going to be harder

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I, integrity, you have to make the choice to live with integrity


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sensitivity of His presence in your live


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If you live alone in a large home, consider having a housemate / companion who would be willing to do the grocery shopping and cooking in exchange for rent


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We live in a society that wants instant gratification


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If you live in an environment where there are lots of gophers bugs, larvae, grubs, spiders, and centipedes, you should start thinking in terms of protecting your plants


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things depending on what state or country you live in


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At three hundred people per square mile you can get away with it, at over a thousand like these people live, and a K-type sun, the energy flux just isn’t high enough


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We are not in this world to live with bitterness, anxiety, resentment or hostility


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This is your opportunity to live your greatest promise, highest self


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The good guys and the bad guys do not live in the same place

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 Practice means to live out, to implement, and to put into effect, to exercise, to put into action, and


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It meant he would live


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· Live in the present


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Blade Runner and They Live, both of which he had seen once before, came on in the afternoon


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H would live another moment, perhaps another day


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«Are we to live


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Long Live Natural Soap!


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If we apply ourselves to allowing these creatures to live in harmony with us, we can provide for both us and them a better life and one in which we do not immediately think of how bad they are etc


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To know that part of you will live on, after you are gone, is truly an awesome thing


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Many of us live far from our babies and when we do see them, the attention is concentrated on them, perhaps more than on our adult children

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And if they live nearby, we can do all that enjoy the babies and send them home to their parents


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That’s an awesome gift to live to see and experience


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The larvae do not bite but live off dried blood defecated by the adult fleas


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He’d bitch about his feet the whole time but then she’d talk bollocks about how they were going to live in a hot air balloon, raining cream puffs on the general population


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Mark your city map with dots or stickers to show where you work, live, and spend time


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The Larvae can live up to 6 months the pupae can live to a year until the conditions are right


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The aim of the counseling is to provide an opportunity for the client to live a more satisfying life


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Cockroaches belong to the order Blattoidea (family Blattidae), and can live up to a year


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Kulai was so sophisticated, a well practiced amorist from an ancient and decadent culture, but in a sense more tease than Tdeshi’s hormones wanted her to live with


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Cockroaches will live in almost any environment

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A cockroach can live without food for three months and without water for over thirty days


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” That’s a big responsibility to live up to and I hate it


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The type of house we live in determines conditions that can lead to cockroach


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If you happen to live in a housing situation that promotes


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We should be able to live with or without them


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The house we live in and hope to pass our old age in peace and happiness must remain in our name, if necessary with our partner


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While there are over several hundred varieties of termites in the world, only four live in the United States, subterranean, dry wood, damp wood and powder-post


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Repair loose or cracked siding or stucco, peeling paint and gaps around windows and doors that allow moisture into the wood that provides an attractive environment for them to live in


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Poor ventilation in crawl spaces will encourage moisture and dampness will occur which is again great conditions for the termites to live in


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Though why I should be, I don’t know … we live in a very exposed world when it comes to what is considered newsworthy

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That is to say they both live in wood, both have wings during mating seasons and they both leave signs(piles of wood dust, wings) which lets us know they are there


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Some lizards and insects can live either way, but they can only stick to the walls


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That is to say they both live in wood, both have wings during mating seasons and they both leave signs (piles of wood dust, wings) which lets us know they are there


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“It is most likely giving me a thirty second delay to enter the proper code to let the computer and the alarm monitoring station know that I have returned home to the house that I live in


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You made your choice, Dan, live with it! You abdicated any right you may have had to caring about my welfare …


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Even today in agricultural and business oriented families in villages and towns people tend to live in large multigenerational households


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In special circumstances families of brothers and unmarried sisters may have also to live in a joint family


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And God is going to say, “Do you really think I put you there on earth to live a selfish little clod of a life?”


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While we grow old and even if we live an independent life, there are occasions when somebody else has to look after our needs


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«Why do we have to live with this old bottle of pop? He ain’t my real pa anyhow!»

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Emma and Adrian live in a modern detached house on the outskirts of a village not far from Bridgwater


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You live in the same world and handle your responsibilities in a more effective manner


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Again, if we start the day with the focusing of our attention on spiritual things and on the affairs of the soul, we shall live the day in a different manner


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The principal one was teaching the Brazilians how to live without being celebrities and escape from the Kassikan


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live and love and stay married


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to live like a prince, but it will take away the life of the pauper


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‘It’s not fit to live in at the moment


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That is why a man cannot live without his Maker


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«Take in livestock that can live on non-perishables,» doostEr thought


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live a victorious life and not have to die in our prime, or because of the

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«I live here Petrakis


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longer live in fear of the next disease


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God live satisfied with their good and long life until old age, and then go


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you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live


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You will take His word for it, and this word will live and


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only with our health, but we will learn to live in victory over demons,


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I might choose to live like a recluse but I’m still in touch with the


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to live in a specific house


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ultrasound test and I told me that she had two days to live at most


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She could live and

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All that Johnny could think about at that moment was how he wanted to live in


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with this world we live in


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At times she felt guilty that she was privileged to live on in heaven while they had simply ceased


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«But I have to talk to you about where I’m going to live and how we’re going to manage this tiny island of the league


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If we dare to live by faith


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to live on into the donation box(Luke, chapter 21)


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live with a curse, the price to be paid for greatness


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«We both live on the estate


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Jorma had lived with Venna almost two years now, one while she learned to sail, well; on their way up from the Yakhan, and another here on North Island of Sinbara


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In the early eighties, I lived in Cornwall


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«I’ve lived most of my life here


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I physically lived on Earth two decades, I’ve been here in flesh for over twenty


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They sat here above Jorma’s head at my table all the time we lived here


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«A century ago, most people lived on farms in the country in isolated family units,» says John Selby, a counselor, teacher, and the author of Solitude: The Art of Living with Yourself


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The soul that had lived half a century on a verandah on a beach, inside Yingolian crystal in a comet that was a starhip


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As the diatom dies, the dia-earth falls to the bottom of the lake or ocean in which they lived


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About half were actually homes, their residents lived in them and had no other home


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I lived it up these last ten years, I lived like that house was mine

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I even lived with one for the first few decades I was on the ground


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Even though the flesh she currently inhabited was born on this world, and she had lived here in this flesh a complete mortal lifetime, her mind was still not used to one sleep period of every week being brilliant daylight


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During the more than twenty Earth years they lived together, other than a bit of post-American and Brazilian slang that they taught each other, they lived their life together in the Kassidorian language because it was the language they had in common


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She had not been friendly with Kulai until just the past couple local years, she’d lived here a little over three months as she had counted time on Narrulla’s Tear


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When she lived with Herndon, she had met Kulai only professionally


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Instead of asking, “How old are you?” we should ask, “How many years have you lived?”


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This was the type of fight he lived for


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it must be awful for him, being on his own in the house where they lived together


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He was caught already! How did this happen? The United Order wasn’t supposed to know any of their real identities, let alone where Johnny lived


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Satisfied that he had done his best to appear like he lived in the house, Ackers went back inside and slammed the door behind him

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Anyone who has ever lived on an island quickly learns the value of the ocean


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They lived in the city, he’d done rigging at their workshop


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lived in this house


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That same Brazilian now lived twenty seven miles from the city almost directly on their route


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of the House of Montolfini, and I have lived twenty lifetimes, my children


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understand why we lived in the


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her temper is rarely long lived, in fact, I expect she was regretting it before he was halfway home


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suburb of Cheltenham where she lived


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’ I assured her, thinking that it would have been kinder if Jack hadn’t lived to fade slowly away with emphysema – he’d not found life at all easy and it had cut me up terribly watching him degenerate into frail helplessness


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I have to say that having lived here for some years now, I have got used to it … it is just home now

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Personally doostEr was more comfortable with the Brazilians he had met than some who lived out here on the sear plains


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I had lived there continuously for thirteen years but of course, I couldn’t go back in time and go to school in the local Christian Brothers in order to be fully accepted by the natives of Darklow


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‘How long have you lived here, Molly?’ she asked me, her chin in her hands as she sits at the table


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‘Have you lived here long, Stephen?’ I asked, dipping my brush carefully into the pot so that I don’t do what my father always said was the worst crime of all – coating the entirety of the bristles in paint


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‘So have you always lived in this area, Stephen?’ I asked, moving along the wall a little to attack another patch of plaster


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‘Dad’s family lived within the sounds of Bow bells


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He joined the army during the war and very quickly rose through the ranks – nothing particularly splendid — but in the process, he became very close friends with a guy who lived in Dorset


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From what we have seen of the way the young man lived, I was rather relieved when Stephen told me that he had fitted bolts to the doors … just in case those keys had gone wandering


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And he lived in the


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…Irina lived for about two months after that

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She had lived as much time that she didn’t know about, as time she did


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She considered herself a little more worldly than when she was mortal, but she hadn’t lived to be that old as a mortal, only thirty seven


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She lived a hundred forty five more years she would never remember


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But I had lived without God for so long


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All of us lived in that way


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It was a very good representation of the environment the mortal humans on the planet below lived in, she wondered if they had planted nano instruments that allowed one to converse with people on the planet below in real time


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From the license plate she knew that the driver lived in Grand Island, Nebraska, her next stop, but that wasn’t all


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The rest of the people lived by vis-


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The one on the ground was a copy of the Ava that had lived secretly in Biology Base with them


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and six hells where gods, demons, and animals lived

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lived Kamui, the creator god, and his servants


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Rode around on his bike with the boys where we lived … was quite keen on kicking a ball around whenever he could


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I remember him spending a good bit of the Christmas break on the phone to her … she lived up in the north of England somewhere


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strange feeling, as if he had lived it before, this is familiar


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intense should have lived at some point


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They were the programming model to a veron in the substrate in which they lived


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He had lived in the suburbs of Baikonur all his life, the city of the greatest spaceport Earth had ever known


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‘Me? Yes, I’ve lived here most of my life


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He’s a local man; his family have lived here for generations, as I surmised from my walk round the graveyard up at the church


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‘Oh … I’ve known Jackie for years, Kate, she’s lived in the village all her life and I can remember seeing her around as a kid when I used to come and stay with the grandparents

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In the downtime, in between these fragmentary episodes of brutal human contact, I lived my pathetic life in a split and fractured landscape


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Bahkmar had four, one of each wife, collected while they lived in the suburbs of greater Baikonur


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Yet having lived seventy plus years (most of which in service to the King), I know it can happen


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The equivalent of they, all the women they lived with all their lives all shared the time slice of one commoner in the male Paradis


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The world horizon beneath which I now lived was definite, finite, and small


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The A star was stable and long lived with sixty billion more years to go on the main sequence


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He lived only a single instant at the impact, but it was an instant of pain beyond anything he had ever experienced before, even as he lay gut-shot and dying as a mortal


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He cursed the fact that he lived, even though he should have been dead on impact


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He’d lived more than half his life here now, but he would have been dead ages ago if he hadn’t come here


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We all lived in a succession of moments, the endless now, with no past and no future

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When he lived with Ava it was inside the walls of the Kassikan


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It would be like this all the way to the address where she now lived, a palatial urban estate in the old stone off third canal


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There were two levels of bridge across the mouth of the yacht basin where she lived, the drawbridge of the keda teams that he and paddlers could get under, and that of the pedestrians eight floors above that


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There weren’t many large powerboats in here, unless you counted those mobile gazebos some people lived on


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I lived a mortal lifetime and then some on the way over


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I lived another mortal lifetime by myself as an Angel and a mortal lifetime here as a biological on this world


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The data on JJ stated that he lived with his adopted father near Taunton where he had grown up; the mother had died a couple of years ago


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After we had lived here for many years the monks told us they felt the


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of a life less lived to remind us that the life that was picked out


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” What is the land of the seven? This was a nickname given to the area where the non-Jews lived

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He became so good at sitting and watching and waiting that a local farmer who lived like a feudal lord in one of the bigger mountain villages employed him as a geriatric shepherd boy


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Beyond the rising Maasai sun the Ainu people of Hokkaidō tell of six heavens and six hells where gods, demons, and animals lived


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In the highest of these heavens lived Kamui, the creator god, and his servants


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Have you lived in this area for long?’


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ground of hopeful Africans that had finally lived to achieve independence


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«So just the fact that I’ve lived here will mean I won’t grow old?»


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I’ve lived in societies as repressive as the one in his bummer,» Luray told her


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All I can say is that you have certainly lived up to your extremely well-deserved reputation, though I hazard a guess that Joris would have your head for being so careless


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«I can hardly call it my religion any more,» Alan said, «I’ve been with Kaha, been wasted on yaag, I’ve deserted my post, I’ve lived with you out of wedlock, I’ve missed service many times in a row now


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The sort of house she could have lived in … in another life perhaps

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Vyinga understood how long ago she’d had her adventure, knew that by now it seemed that she’d no more lived it than Vyinga had hers


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«I don’t know what he did in Zhlindu,» Luray said, «I never knew him there, but while we were just friends in Yoonbarla this last time I lived there, I think we were number one and number two and he was definitely two


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minutes to reach the cottage where Fred lived


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There’s no way I could have lived with myself


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lived in houses that lead off from the north and south roads


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Although some of the luckier folk lived in the houses that were


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Herod lived in Jerusalem in a palace surrounded by people who he had hired that also lived in Jerusalem


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David – and therefore God – lived by another wisdom


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He had no idea what animals lived here other than the thongas and whatever was making the noises around him


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The next century of my life I learned quite a bit from the Dwarves in Wescarp, they were much more advanced at the time than the Nordics that lived on these plains

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eventually failed in their bid at the cost of al the lives onboard both vessels


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situation we are challenged with in our lives


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God’s word in their lives and fail in standing in faith, they


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in their lives before you can preach or share it to


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Those guys are putting their lives on the line


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«So the body lives but you are in a crystal


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If you’re using it to better your life and you’re making the lives of those around you better in the process, that’s not selfish


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Z lives close to here…”


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All we have in our lives are a whole lot of


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once in their lives

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will; develop the fear and love of God in our lives


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A lot of the people that you associate with right now might not be ready for change in their lives


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Women face unique health issues beginning at age 50 and throughout the rest of their lives


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We all have a lot of moments in our lives when we said, “I should have


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always in our lives? The answer is simple, the church got


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That is the same conviction of God presence in our lives


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Ava laughed, «Don’t bet the lives of the crew on it,» Ava said, «Because I couldn’t


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observe in our lives, the more chances for us to avoid


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lives of those they have direct or in direct issues with


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So the relationships we’ve had in our past lives keep repeating over and over again

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other people’s lives with every opportunity He has given


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So, after ten days of being together, off and on, I told her how I felt, all those things about the love and the past lives


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It’s critical that we be absolutely intentional about nurturing hope in our lives and the lives of our children


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Each time we make a difference in the lives of others, we create hope in ourselves


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Our accumulated gestures of care and compassion will ultimately transform our lives and the lives of others


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direction He would take with our lives


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have the evidence of His existence in our lives, is through


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and how to restore them back into our lives


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More likely than not, Onidas and the few other survivors here would spend the rest of their lives caged in servitude beneath the earth


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Whether or not they will become musicians or play some musical instruments in their adulthood, love of music is a gift that will continue to enrich them all their lives

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We should not interfere in the lives of our children or the methods they choose to raise their children


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Some grandparents are concerned that they are missing out on their grandchildren’s everyday lives and special experiences


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Children are fascinated with computers, and teens use email to communicate with friends next door! If you keep tabs on their lives via email, you will be a modern grandparent


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Some of his work is very upsetting – children being abused … wives being beaten … I’ve never worked out if it is worse for him having to defend the aggressors or to prosecute them … either way, he has to delve far too deeply into people’s lives


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He would understand that they were just getting settled into their lives together, and during this phase there might be some loose ends from previous lives to tidy up


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‘Yes, she’s got a daughter, but she’s married with a small child and lives on the other side of Bridgwater


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We are also not here to be preoccupied with indiscriminate or unregulated gratification of the senses, or to imitate the behaviour of others whose lives are so misdirected


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We can re-arrange our lives, leaving out the non-essential activities


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‘I thought no-one in Bridgwater knows where she lives


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the rest of your lives together, enough for you not to struggle, but not too much so that

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‘Then suggest that Liz lives here for a while


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Every family, every house lives in this shelter


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«Lives with her mother in Avoca


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I have had to explain where the house is to Liz … Stephen obviously hasn’t got round to telling her where he lives yet … honestly!


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He lives in the top three floors of the tree between the two big barns on third aisle


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They thought our lives were pointless


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For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on


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a man lives in fear


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I got a girl she lives on the


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I got a girl, she lives on the

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The soldiers who stopped them are running for their lives, throwing away their weapons as they flee


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He lives within us by the Holy Spirit


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‘There’s his mother – she lives not far away


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Clones, it turns out, however generated, wind up treating each other as identical twins, however different their lives and platforms may be


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light in their eyes, these daughters of his with their busy lives and their boisterous


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They made excuses about how busy their lives had been


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Our whole lives could fall apart


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Everything we had put together, Marianne and I, in our quiet ordinary little lives and our quiet ordinary little home


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His strange new work colleague Moses Tah, an immigrant from the battle-scarred West African state of Liberia claims the ability to give him these powers, but is he for real? If Moses does possess the powers that Michael wants, will he be able to gain them? If he can learn them in time, will they be enough to change the destiny of the people around him? Lives are at stake; families, friends, colleagues, innocent bystanders


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lives, breathes and works in Ireland, just south of Dublin City

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The rich seldom have more than two children, because they would rather live their lives than change diapers


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of the fortress where Madame Guillotine waltzed away the lives of her beaus every


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Aphrodite introduced him to me as Zisis, her new boyfriend, whom she already lives with


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dedicated their lives to prepare academically and spiritually for the great work of


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It proved to be a fiasco: as usual, the guru monopolized all conversations, emphasizing that he is in total control of our lives now and that he knows exactly what we are doing every moment


66.
The natives of the world ahead of them live lives of ease and sloth, constantly intoxicated, constantly indulging in indiscriminate intercourse with strangers


67.
Time and routine – we measure lives by the watch-hand and the regularity of our shift between states of activity


68.
In the same evening, in a movie on TV there is a similar scene: A tribe of Indians lives near an elephant cemetery guarded by a monster


69.
Fred makes Betty’s day by kissing her and giving her a present of a bunch of roses – the wicked flirt that he is! I sometimes wonder just how involved he is with those two – I don’t watch their comings and goings but I am under no illusions, and do not believe for a moment the people who maintain that elderly people have no sex lives


70.
As difficult as it may be, the church that lives under «Majority Rule» will not prosper and grow

71.
The equivalent of they, all the women they lived with all their lives all shared the time slice of one commoner in the male Paradis


72.
This was not the time, place, or company for a philosophical conversation on the inherent shallowness of their lives


73.
I’ve discovered that he lives in a house up by the quarry on the western boundaries of the village – I’ve not seen it but he says there are fantastic views over the village from his bedroom window … I contemplate what it would be like to find out … then read myself the riot act for being so … so … optimistic


74.
«Once we agree that lives are expendable for objectives, we are only discussing the price


75.
She has been in Athens for four years, she lives with an aunt of hers but she isn’t pleased and she wants to change address


76.
They will change their world to save their lives


77.
It is interesting to note that while two books of the Old Testament bear the names of women (Ruth and Esther), and deal with their lives as God worked


78.
In the Great War, when the concept of concentration wiped out the lives of millions, there were always those who remained, those who survived and who told their stories


79.
How many of the souls on this ship had sacrificed their mortal lives in martyrdom for Talstan? He looked it up and found it to be thirteen percent of the crew


80.
“I don’t understand what’s the meaning of this all! Frankly, I can’t understand why this woman lives! She goes to one place; she goes to another place; so, what? All this is nothing but nonsense for people who have no reason to live!” she concluded, full of contempt for old-maid Ivy

81.
She has let out her apartment in Kato Patissia, and she lives with her family in a spacious, sunny house in the luxurious suburb of Kifissia


82.
have two children, Laura, who lives in Chicago, IL and Mark of Littleton, CO


83.
These signs, this talismanic evidence of other lives, thrilled me


84.
trip with this person that they are trying to impress; they are going to be living the rest of their lives with the person


85.
We shared a geographical commonality along the borders between Lebanon and Palestine, and through it so much common history, which made the personal nature of our lives and stories mutually accessible


86.
As the youngest in the group I tended to listen more than I spoke, and I enjoyed a vicarious and voyeuristic expansion of my hinterland through the far more interesting stories from other people’s lives


87.
It is in the times of darkness being upon the face of the deep that the Spirit of God is hovering over our own lives


88.
As we suffer death and suffering in our own lives and prides, we start to see what the resurrection truly is


89.
When we apply this to our own lives, it makes sense now as to why we undergo pain and torment


90.
Our view of eternity and what comes after our life actually affects and puts in motion how we will live and what will govern our lives now in the present

91.
something in our lives, whether its financial success or a great


92.
up as if they are a mirage that lives outside of them… that


93.
we’ve heard growing up throughout our lives, our parents,


94.
He gave up on business, spent hours writing hopeless paeans to her memory, and slowly the light in their eyes, these daughters of his with their busy lives and their boisterous men folk, ceased to burn for him


95.
The soldiers began to realize that Son was sparing their lives


96.
The women of the kingdom loved Son because he had spared the lives of


97.
The reason that we can’t understand or express where the Spirit fits in or how the trinity works is because we have no need of either concept in our daily lives


98.
The kind of life that lives from its own strength instead of the power of the resurrection – which is the life of God – prefers the one man on the platform


99.
us and operate throughout our lives to produce optimal


100.
Still growling, he stormed away to the stairs that lead down into the bowels of the fortress where Madame Guillotine waltzed away the lives of her beaus every morning

1.
Our Christian living with God must have the


2.
When you are living in that state


3.
Walking with God is all about living life that has God’s


4.
So there you are left in The Waiting Room living a life more akin to


5.
with idols? For you are the temple of the living God; as God


6.
living that life is nothing more than creating goals, achieving those goals, and doing that over and over and over again


7.
Living a life of counting days in The Waiting Room leaves me with way too much time for pondering


8.
In this way, I could carry on living a life untroubled by religion [anyone’s!] before


9.
Accept That Change Is a Part of Living


10.
awaken a whole new sense of being present and living life in the moment, as it is happening

11.
«A century ago, most people lived on farms in the country in isolated family units,» says John Selby, a counselor, teacher, and the author of Solitude: The Art of Living with Yourself


12.
» Most people enjoyed a relationship with nature that made them feel less alone, he adds, but suburban living has diminished that connection


13.
We must understand that our body is not designed for modern living


14.
Some people are interested in living a better life but they are not committed, and that’s okay


15.
living a life of integrity is simple but it’s not easy


16.
Living with integrity, doing what you said you would do, when and how you said you would do it, is simple but it’s not easy


17.
commitments to, who you are being honest with, who you are living a life of integrity for, who do you need to do that for the most? You need to do it for you


18.
If your ideal life is living in a way that spending time with your children is everything to you, then you have to create your life in a way that allows you to live a life that is one hundred percent dedicated to your


19.
However, I hope you don’t do that because that’s doing what? That’s not honoring your commitments and that’s not living with integrity


20.
Living with integrity is really important to your success

21.
After two of the short local years, she was now getting used to living with Kulai


22.
Stop Living in the Past


23.
The Rule of Stress applies to all living things


24.
He didn’t answer, blew right by it urgently, «Did you say she is now living in the house with those papers?»


25.
She raced in the living room where mermaid’s were drawing on Grandpa’s face with markers


26.
His ways are the only way of living


27.
We are living in times where the calling and


28.
Add to this, the fact that the parents are living longer


29.
Deer, Rabbits and most wild life can be controlled by first understanding that they are living beings and have rights too


30.
‘Not very well … in fact, I found living opposite them extremely difficult, Inspector

31.
Living in the same town (or even same state) as your grandchildren is not always an


32.
The principle laws of balance are the same in all living things


33.
From the smallest to the largest, all living things require balanced energy


34.
Only 6 species in the USA all living things, cockroaches have been called are considered bad household pests


35.
Ideally it can mean living temporarily in other person’s life


36.
On the contrary if you feel that you have all the time in the world to improve the standard of your life (as different from living standard!) or to help the needy and have all the money and possessions to take care of your essential bodily needs, then you will be happy all the time


37.
They sent most of their luggage on to his ranch with a freight man, they would be living rough from here and she had misgivings about that


38.
He realises that there is one underlying homogeneous essence, a living truth, behind these names and forms of living beings


39.
It is a common practice in the well to do business class to have all the children and their families living together at least until the parents are alive


40.
It is economical for all families as the integrated costs are considerably less than the addition of individual households when living separately

41.
Living soil allows for a functional diversity of organisms


42.
They were actually pirates, and they valued Archimedes for his ability to predict the most efficient way to loot ships and override human beings’ living patterns


43.
She is the master at that, I only have her memories of it, she is living it and advancing it even now


44.
In urban areas this is not easy, as people are not exposed to the community living as is possible in villages


45.
Being surrounded by water, island living relies on the resources of the ocean


46.
‘Let’s just say that we are both relieved that she isn’t living in Bridgwater


47.
Meditation is a mind without agitation, a mind living only in the present


48.
Meditation requires living every moment in depth and having no desire


49.
Satya is the Yama that is about living a truthful life without doing harm to others


50.
Isvarapranidhama or living with an awareness of the Divine

51.
‘So he must know where she’s living


52.
To begin with this living being is totally free of all constraints


53.
By the late 40’s he was mixing up tubs of his soap with a broom handle in the Los Angeles hotel room he was living in, and selling it after his lectures about his peace plan and the “FULL TRUTHS” he had come to understand could unite the entire world


54.
John awakens on the couch in his living room


55.
Estwig was about ten years beyond that now, but then Wootondi had been living in these trees for just about eleven years wasn’t it? That would explain why Estwig was often so frank with her


56.
Living in the secluded hills of Malibu Canyon is a man known as the “Invisible Gardener


57.
” Growing up in Puerto Rico/Miami, Lopez was heavily influenced by the fact that his mother grew her own fruits and vegetables and always used animal manure as fertilizer This organically based philosophy toward gardening techniques laid the foundation of Lopez beliefs and in 1972 he founded Astra’s Garden, based on something of a religion that subscribes to living in harmony with the environment: not polluting; treating all living plant life with respect; and, basically just listening to what the earth is telling us


58.
His wide variety of clients — including in the past, such celebrities as Olivia Newton-John and Mark Harmon, attests to his effectiveness in connecting with people who share his motto (“happy, healthy, holy”) when it comes to living and interacting with the natural surroundings


59.
mother had simply had enough of living her life in that seemingly permanent holding


60.
John shakes his head, walks out the door, living Rosita stroking Dave’ cheek

61.
regrets? Some, but I was twenty-seven and still living at home, it was a bright April


62.
living a complete and enjoyable life without doctors and medicines


63.
living with continual resentment, rather than looking at the old man most of the time


64.
There’s just one living room and a bedroom with small shower room and loo off it


65.
The décor in the living room is pretty dire and tatty too, but once the wallpaper is removed, I’ll be able to paint the walls and then it won’t look too bad


66.
that is living and powerful


67.
The living word revives everything


68.
When you look into the living word it will penetrate you and


69.
He was half in and half out of the living room, hiding behind the door-frame


70.
servants set their hopes upon the living and eternal God

71.
Hearing it on the news and living in it were very different, Talstan’s Angels still sounded like nonsense


72.
Khalid comes in, stands in the living room area,


73.
i believe that while my soul is in touch with living God


74.
you will see a mass of living microbes


75.
She might be living more years even now


76.
He needed to find Sammy the Shark/Gino Ngata first and the only living connection he had right now were the surviving victims of last night’s attack which Melinda had described to him in disturbing detail


77.
It’s the year 2423 by my clock and I’m still living here in this villa, still spending most of my time out here on the verandah


78.
«It took them ten years until their shuttlecraft reached the ground, but the surviving crew are all living on the planet below and the nose plate of their derelict old torch is serving as our fabricator mount


79.
filled to the point of overflowing…The living word starts living within us


80.
In spite of being in the native language, she saw it was from a guy who had come to this system on the Brazilian ship but was now living seventeen hundred miles south west of the city where they landed

81.
I swear to you, you don’t know what kind of country you are living in until you’ve been arrested


82.
‘That I mustn’t tell anyone where I’m living and that Stephen should activate the security system here at the house


83.
the power of God is living and active in the life of a believer, governing


84.
Spirit while living on Earth


85.
«Occasionally there are orders now for living organs, live beating hearts to be removed and filmed for the pleasure of the client


86.
It had gone by quickly because they’d been living in short slices for much of the time


87.
His neighbours spent weeks and then months cajoling him into living,


88.
He continued to live without living


89.
daughters and their husbands bumped along with the endless cycles of living, working


90.
Twenty years of living on hard and

91.
As she placed the girl on her bed and came back into the living room, she saw that Sarah was already setting up a place for her to sleep on the sofa-bed there


92.
Everything about the living room also said ‘home’, from the child-made drawings displayed proudly on the walls, to the collection of pony paraphernalia strewn about the place


93.
We could have sold a few things from the living room and raised several thousand, but of course Sammy’s henchmen had destroyed everything


94.
down and shattered as it appeared to be, was a living man, a thing of flesh and blood,


95.
She lasted until they both graduated … I think she was expecting it to go on, but they were unable to get jobs in the same town and, after about six months of living fifty miles apart, it fizzled out


96.
He preached the commonality of life, the brotherhood of all living things and the


97.
At the entry to each person’s universe there is a grand colonnade or gate as befits the man living in the universe at the end of that colonnade


98.
It was little better than maintaining fuel delivery piping while he was mortal, but in this society, it was a living


99.
Although he went away to join the army, when he came back, he settled down apparently quite happily, living with his elderly mother until she died and then coming to live here at The Laurels


  • Use the word Live in a sentences

Sentence Examples

Tonight, I am sure that this-this life I live— it does not pay, but- but like the man who is caught in the- in the whirl- whirlpool, I cannot get out.

Free and gaily flaming life was mine to live

Because I’m going to marry mademoiselle and take mademoiselle to the moon and find a cave in one of the white valleys, and mademoiselle will live with us there forever.

For, lambkins, we will live.

Better to die while you’re still a legend than to live long enough to make a mockery of that legend.

Let us condole the knight, for, lambkins, we will live.

Daphne overate because she was afraid she couldn’t live up to my image of her.

For Indian people, the traditional goal of life is to live with virtue, dharma; to gain wealth and success, artha; to find pleasure, kama;

We’re standing by for live video of the crew donning their flight suits in the crew quarters, which is located in the Operations and Checkout building.

Reporting live from the Miami-Dade Police Department, where lauded local citizen

Come, let us in to condole Falstaff, for, lambkins, we will live.

I’ll live with you. Come to me.

Does she live in this neighborhood?

My mother? -No… Why would you mom live in a crappy neighborhood like this?

-No, it’s not mine. We just live in the basement for rent.

What a weird person I meet as I live. Ugh, disgusting.

It’s not like it was hard to live or even starve to death.

Then, did he come to find me all the way from Australia? But how’d he know where I live?

Things can happen, right? People live in poverty,

How long did the doctor say I have to live?

Why do you live this way?

Is this the way you want to live?

Why do you live so recklessly?

I can’t live. … Put some medicine on it.

‘I have a responsibility, as a documentary photographer, ‘to photograph the times we live in, what the world is about now.

Does she live here alone?

Do you live here as well? — Yes.

I didn’t want to live on a farm and he couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.

I know the cliff well enough to know that there will be no rest unless we make peace with those who live there.

The people who live here and some of the workers have access to this storage room.

Daly: … The pressure is on to bring only the best To the live shows.

With one final spot left on his team for the live shows,

For the last live-show spot on team adam. Casey: Right now I’m going through the song in my head

Daly: For team adam’s battle, two talented artists Are vying for one coveted spot in the live shows.

On who will win and secure the last spot on his live-show team.

Daly: Jeff jenkins is the final addition To adam’s team for the live shows,

Daly: With one final live-show spot on the line,

Daly: With only one important spot in the live shows to fill, Team blake gets down to business.

One will move on to the live shows… And one will go home.

Daly: In this round, two artists from team blake Will fight to get to the live shows.

Oh, my god! Daly: Lily elise moves on to the live shows.

Oh, you did it. Daly: Lily elise completes christina’s team for the live shows,

Daly: With only one spot left on his team for the live shows,

It’s time for the final battle. There will be only one winner Who will take cee lo’s last spot in the live shows.

Thanks to «the voice» band. Join us next week on «the voice,» live.

—(Sentences with verb live — short I sound, the opposite of to die.)

Eating right and exercising regularly will help you livelonger.

Are animals that live in a zoo treated well?

Because of her Arthritis, Grandma wants to live in a warm climate.

How many people live on this planet?

Human beings can live longer without food than they can without water.

Animals that live in the ocean include whales, sharks and jellyfish.

— (Sentences with adjective live — long I sound, meaning alive or «in person»)

Do live worms make the best fishing bait?

Live lobsters can be several different colors, but only cooked lobsters are bright red.

Vaccines using live viruses can be more effective, but also more dangerous,

Many people complain about the price of concert tickets, but seeing a favorite musician live is well worth the cost.

Mom attends several plays each year because she appreciates a live performance.

Lives vs. Lifes – What’s the Gist?

The confusion between these two words comes from the heteronym lives. Remember heteronyms have different meanings and sounds, but they share the same spelling.

  • Lives primarily acts as present tense third-person singular verb.
  • Lifes is not a word.

Actually, the plural of life is not lifes but rather lives.


lives versus lifes

How to Use Lives in a Sentence

Lives definition: The word lives is a third-person singular verb; it is pronounced with a short i sound lĭvz. For the sake of having a broader application, we’ll define the word live instead.

Live lĭv as an intransitive verb is very nuanced. It means to be alive; or to subsist; or to inhabit a home; or realize eternal life; or endure in human memory; or to have a rich life experience; or to cohabitate.

For example:

  • First responders live to serve and protect. (Present Tense Verb)
  • After upgrading, the family lives in a larger, two-story home. (Present Tense Verb)
  • Right after college, the couple lived together for several years. (Past Tense Verb)

Additionally, live lĭv functions as a transitive verb, passing action to either a subject or to a direct object, and means to spend the duration of; or to practice; or to exhibit enthusiasm; or to experience firsthand.

For example:

  • The quarantined community lives their days sequestered from each other. (Present Tense Verb)
  • She lives out her life by serving others and offering kindness everywhere she goes. (Present Tense Verb)
  • In spite of setbacks, the injured athlete lives life fully. (Present Tense Verb)

Finally, the word live līv, pronounced with a long i, is an adjective, which means having life; or containing energy; or of a current interest; or broadcast at the time of production; or something that is in play.

For example:

  • As the beachcomber walked along the water’s edge, he came upon a live crab. (Adjective)
  • The newscast was live. (Adjective)
  • The linebacker did not realize that the dropped football was a live ball. (Adjective)

As you can see, the denotations of the word live, pronounced either lĭv or līv, are many.

How to Use Lifes in a Sentence

Lifes definition: Because the plural of the word life is not lifes but rather lives, the noun life will be defined instead.

As a noun, life has many denotations: the distinguishing quality that reflects a vital, functional being; the physical and mental experiences that reflect the existence of an individual; the period from birth to death; a manner of living; duration of something; one providing interest or vigor; or something assigned animation.

For example:

  • Frankenstein’s creature was given life. (Noun)
  • My life is enriched by the deep and abiding friendships that had been cultivated over a lifetime. (Noun)
  • The dash on the gravestone reflected his life on earth. (Noun)

Furthermore, the word life functions as an adjective, meaning lifelong or relating to insurance.

For example:

  • Her life membership in the club ensured her consistent attendance. (Adjective)
  • He purchased a life insurance policy to cover expenses. (Adjective)

Remember the plural for life is lives līvz, pronounced with a long i sound.

Outside Examples of Lives

  • “It seems like it’s targeted at the older generation,” said the District resident, who lives with her 9-year-old granddaughter, whose father died a few years ago, and her 14-year-old grandson, whom Gentry has raised since infancy. –The Washington Post
  • Andrew Busch, 33 years old, who lives outside Milwaukee, said gasoline in his area has fallen from about $2.60 a gallon toward the end of last year to below $2 currently. The senior financial analyst at financial-technology firm Fiserv Inc. normally drives to work with his wife, a health-care worker. Since Mr. Busch is now working remotely, he said he plans to still drive his wife just to get out of the house but will no longer need to travel to his office. –The Wall Street Journal
  • The University of South Florida put out a statement late Tuesday afternoon, calling commencement a “vital element of the university community and an important milestone in the lives of students and their families.” –Tampa Bay Times
  • In a live-streamed address Wednesday evening, he said the only way to save lives as the pandemic worsens in Pennsylvania is for nonessential businesses to heed his request to close shop and for people to stay home. –The Philadelphia Inquirer

Phrases That Use Lives

Even though there aren’t any common phrases for the word lives, there are several phrases that use the word live or life, including:

Live it up: To experience the moment fully engaged and reveling in it.

  • After finals week was over, the coeds were living it up.

Live up to: To fulfill an expectation or meet a standard anticipated by someone else.

  • The younger son tried to live up to his mother’s expectation by following in his older brother’s footsteps.

It’s a dog’s life: To live in a deplorable or miserable state. However, this term can be used to mean the opposite—that a dog has an easy life.

  • Lying on the sofa, eating at will, and using the dog door carte blanche meant the family pet had a dog’s life indeed.

The good life: To have an existence that reflects the best that life has to offer with few concerns or worries.

  • After getting the job of her dreams, the woman experienced the good life for the first time.

How to Remember These Words

Because these two words, live and life share a heteronym of lives, you need to keep the meaning and the pronunciation clear in your mind.

Lives, pronounced lĭvz, is the third person singular verb of live lĭv. The plural of the noun life is lives, pronounced līvz.

For example:

  • He lives down the road.
  • Their lives were spared.

Article Summary

Is lives or lifes correct? These heteronyms are easily confused. Ask yourself whether you need either a verb or a noun. If you are looking for a transitive verb that expresses action or an intransitive verb which expresses being, pick the word lives pronounced with the short i sound.

If you need a plural noun, pick the word lives pronounced with the long i sound.

  • Lives functions primarily as a third-person singular verb.
  • Lifes is not a word, but the term lives is the plural form of the noun life.

Contents

  • 1 Lives vs. Lifes – What’s the Gist?
  • 2 How to Use Lives in a Sentence
  • 3 How to Use Lifes in a Sentence
  • 4 Outside Examples of Lives
  • 5 Phrases That Use Lives
  • 6 How to Remember These Words
  • 7 Article Summary

Once again, I have to emphasize the importance of using correct spellings because there are several reasons why this is so. 

Correct spelling helps to ensure that the intended meaning of a word or phrase is conveyed clearly. If a word is misspelled, it may be difficult for the reader to understand what is being communicated, or they might misinterpret the message. This often leads to confusion or misunderstandings and can affect the overall effectiveness of written communication.

In addition to that, using incorrect spelling can be seen as a lack of attention to detail or a lack of care, which can reflect poorly on you.

This brings us to the topic at hand: “lifes vs. lives.” 

What is the correct word? How can we use these words? I have all the answers in this short read. Let’s get started.

Lives vs. Lifes: Which One is Correct & What’s the difference?

Lives vs. Lifes

One way to describe “lives” is that it is the plural form of “life,” which refers to the existence of an individual or multiple individuals. It is used to refer to the physical existence of living beings, the duration of a person’s time on earth, or to give someone’s location (or place of residence). 

To sum up these statements, we can say that the word “lives” originates from the noun “life” and the verb “live,” which means to inhabit a place.

For example, you might say, “He has led a full and meaningful life,” “the cat has nine lives,” or “he lives in New York.”

On the other hand, “lifes” is not a word. It is a common misspelling of “lives.” If you want to refer to multiple living entities, the correct way to spell it is “lives.”

People usually mistake the word by putting an “s” at the end of life instead of changing the “f” to “v” and then adding an “s.” For example, you can’t say,

  • Cats have nine lifes. (Incorrect

This sentence is incorrect because “lifes,”which is not a word, is being used as the plural of the word life. To correct the sentence above, we can rewrite it as;

  • Cats have nine lives. (Correct)

Defining the Root Word: Life

“Life” has a lot of dictionary definitions, but let me explain a few basic ones:

  1. The characteristic that distinguishes physical entities having biological processes, such as growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli, from those that do not, either because such functions have ceased (death), or because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate.
  2. The period between the birth and death of an individual. 
  3. The quality that makes living things and plants different from non-living things, and which is not found in non-living things. 
  4. The general or universal condition of human existence: the human condition.
  5. The driving force of something or an inspiring entity/factor (i.e. the life of the party).
  6. Vigor, vibe, vitality, dynamism, or energy (i.e. everyone knew that Joe was full of life).

When to use Lifes in a sentence

Never use “lifes” in any sentence. “Lifes” is a misspelling of the plural of “life.” To form the plural of life, you must follow a rule that is also applicable to words such as the ones below:

  • The plural of “leaf” is leaves.
  • The plural of “calf” is calves. 
  • The plural of “wolf” is wolves. 
  • The plural of “knife” hoof is hooves, 
  • The plural of “knife” is knives

do not simply add an ‘s’ but the ‘f’ is replaced with a ‘v’ and add ‘s’ creating the plural ‘lives’ an example below;

  • The presence of a father figure played a massive role in their lives. (correct)

And not-

  • The presence of a father figure played a massive role in their lifes. (Incorrect)

“Lifes" is a misspelling of the plural of “life.”

When to use “Lifes” in a sentence

When to Use “Lives” In a Sentence

Lives as a Noun

“Lives” is the plural of the singular word “life.” To live is to simply be alive and not dead; to experience and survive a life-threatening encounter; and so many other definitions of “life.” 

Lives also point out a specified part of a person’s life as expressed in these examples; 

  • They keep their private lives separate from everyone.
  • College students make sure they maintain their social lives.

Other examples:

  • He put all our lives at risk. In this example, lives is a noun originating from life made plural lives.
  • They would start their lives together and live happily ever after. 
  • Do not play with people’s lives.
  • They could no longer cope with the loneliness in their lives

Lives can also mean the plural of “live video feed,” whether on television or the internet. For example, we can say:

  • I have seen all of John’s Facebook Lives.

Lives as a Verb 

The examples above show “lives” as a noun. “Lives” as a verb can be used to show a storage area or location. In this case, “lives” acts as a present-tense, third-person singular verb.

Take a look at the examples below:

  • The silverware lives here (location)

It can also be used to show that someone is still remembered even after death or to be kept in memory or record, one can say;

  • He lives in us all. (a memory)
  • This lives as a mark of his cordiality towards everyone who has met him. (remembered for something)

The word lives can be used to point out where a person resides; 

  • They/he/she lives in Paris
  • He/she lives in a flat above mine.

When using “lives” to describe someone or the condition of a place, it can be classified as a verb. Here are examples; 

  • The community lives its days in fear of contracting the virus.
  • Despite the danger cancer has posed to her life, Telly lives happily

Lives or lifes: How to remember

The temptation to add an “s” to life to make the word plural will always be strong, especially for non-native English speakers. These two words can be confusing, but some things can help everyone remember when and how to use them. 

Working on the pronunciations of the two words is the most effective route. The noun form of “lives” is pronounced as “livez.” 

  • Their lives (livez) depended on the arrival of the packages.
  • They needed this in their lives (livez).

The verb form is pronounced “livz.” 

  • He lives (livz) in the United States. (He resides in the United States)
  • The cat lives (livz) here because its owner left it some months ago. 

It can also be helpful to practice spelling the word “lives” correctly by writing it out a few times. This can help to reinforce the correct spelling in your memory.

Idioms Containing “Life,” Lives,” Or “Live”

How to use "Life," Lives," Or "Live" in a sentence

Idioms Containing “Life,” Lives,” Or “Live”

Here are a few idioms that contain the words “life,” “lives,” or “live”:

  1. “To live life to the fullest” – This means to make the most of one’s life, to fully experience and enjoy all that life has to offer.
  2. “To live in the moment” – This means to focus on the present moment, rather than worrying about the past or future.
  3. “To live on the edge” – This means to lead a risky or dangerous lifestyle.
  4. “To live up to expectations” – This means to meet or fulfill the expectations that others have of you.
  5. “To live by one’s wits” – This means to rely on one’s intelligence, resourcefulness, and quick thinking to survive or succeed in life.
  6. “To live and let live” – This means respecting other people’s right to live their lives as they see fit, without interference.
  7. “To live in fear” – This means to be constantly afraid or anxious.
  8. “To live through something” – This means to experience something difficult or traumatic but to survive it.
  9. “To live in sin” – This means to cohabit or have a sexual relationship outside of marriage.

Lives or Lives FAQs

1. Where can I use life and lives?

Life is singular and lives is plural; here are two examples to help you get a clear picture

  • I love my life 
  • They love their lives 

2. Is it daily life or daily lives?

There is no difference in the question; “daily life” is singular and “daily lives” is plural, so it depends on the context.

3. How do I remember the difference between “lives” and “lifes?”

A simple memory trigger to differentiate the two words is to check their pronunciation. Lives is pronounced “livez” if it’s a noun and “livz” if it’s a verb. lifes, the incorrect version of the noun is pronounced as ‘li-fes’ 

4. Is life plural or singular?

Life is singular, and its plural is “lives.”

4. Is lifes a word?

No, “lifes” is not a word.

Wrapping up “Lifes vs. Lives”

As I stressed in the introduction, using correct spelling is important for academic and professional writing, as it demonstrates a level of literacy and competency that is expected in these contexts. 

Incorrect spelling can hinder the credibility and authority of the writer and may even be viewed as a disqualifying error.

This is why it is so important for you to get small but crucial spelling problems such as “lives and lifes.” I’m sure that you’re no longer going to have problems with this word having read this post.

  1. My hometown is a great place to live.
  2. My town is a great place to live in

This is an excellent question. The answer, interestingly, has nothing to do with Dublin. It has absolutely nothing to do with the verb live. It also has nothing to do particularly with the prepositions in or at either. It has everything to do with the noun place.

The noun place is not a normal noun. If you replace place with most other nouns in English, you’ll find that it isn’t in fact grammatical to drop the preposition at the end of the infinitive in sentences like these:

  • *Dublin is a great city to live. (ungrammatical)
  • *This is a great restaurant to eat. (ungrammatical)
  • *This is a great hotel to stay. (ungrammatical)
  • *This is a horrendous zone to have to live. (ungrammatical)

Compare those to:

  • Dublin is a great place to live.
  • This is a great place to eat.
  • This is a great place to stay.
  • This is a horrendous place to have to live.

Notice as well that if we want to add a Locative Complement or Locative Adjunct (read Adverbial) to a normal sentence, we normally need a preposition phrase:

  • Let’s eat in some restaurant.
  • He was staying at some hotel or other.

We cannot drop the prepositions from these sentences:

  • *Let’s eat some restaurant. (ungrammatical)
  • *He was staying some hotel or other. (ungrammatical)

But, especially when it occurs with the determiner some, noun phrases using the word place can most often occur on their own without any preceding preposition:

  • Let’s eat some place.
  • He was staying some place or other.

With relative clauses, we also see the noun place behaving in an exceptional way. Relative clauses have an antecedent, which is the phrase that is being modified by the relative clause, the thing that we are giving more information about. Some nouns, in particular, the word place can have relative clauses where the gap in the relative clause represents a locative phrase of the type that would normally be represented by a preposition phrase within the relative clause. This is not normally possible unless the relative clause uses the relative word where. However, when place — or a small number of similar words — is the antecedent noun, it is possible. Consider the following sentences which are grammatical when the antecedent is the word place, but not if it is another noun:

  • That’s the place we ate last time
  • Dublin is the place I want to live.
  • That’s the place we saw that incredible film.
  • This is the place they kept the prisoner.

Compare those with the following:

  • *That’s the restaurant we ate last time. (ungrammatical)
  • *Dublin is the city I want to live. (ungrammatical)
  • *That’s the theatre we saw that incredible film. (ungrammatical)
  • *This is the dungeon they kept the prisoner. (ungrammatical)

And then consider these, which use the relative preposition where:

  • That’s the restaurant where we ate last time.
  • Dublin is the city where I want to live.
  • That’s the theatre where we saw that incredible film.
  • This is the dungeon where they kept the prisoner.

The Original Poster’s questions

Normally when we drop the word in after the word live it is because of some occurrence of the word place. This word may occur as an antecedent,as a word that is being modified by some clause that live occurs in, or it may be part of a noun phrase functioning as a Locative Complement of the word live. In most circumstances, it is not because of any special relationship with the word live itself. Indeed, this will occur with many other verbs. Very often the results when we drop the preposition, are better than the results when we don’t:

  • London is the best place I’ve lived.
  • London is the best place I’ve lived in.

Personally, the first example above is more natural than the second. However, using sentences like this will often convey an informal style. When a more formal style is required, we may be better off substituting the word place for a different noun and using a regular preposition phrase as a complement.

Regarding the second question

  1. It’s the East End» that I lived in all of my life.

  2. It’s the East End in which I lived all of my life.

  3. It’s the East End which I lived in all of my life.

If the relative words which or that are used in such relative clauses then they will be interpreted as representing noun phrases in the relative clauses themselves. They won’t be interpreted as standing in for preposition phrases or locative phrases in general. For this reason we still require the preposition in to meet this requirement. As the Original Poster has shown, where does indeed represent a locative phrase within the clause itself and, for this reason, no preposition is required.

To finish:

So I’ve given a vague description of what can happen with the word place. Exactly why does it happen this way? I don’t know anyone who knows. One theory that we could put forward is that place is becoming more and more preposition-like. It is taking on more and more prepositiony qualities. Perhaps one day it will actually split in two and may become a locative preposition in its own right. But — that’s just an interesting theory. Nobody knows!

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