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• A thing that someone needs or depends on.

  ‘politics has been the breath of life to her for 50 years’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Yours is the house which decides the fate of the land, the house which gives the breath of life to the people.’
  • ‘In India, rice is often called the breath of life.’
  • ‘She poured some into the cap, cupping it into her hands and inhaling its warmth as if it were the breath of life.’
  • ‘The political will to use force is the breath of life of deterrence.’
  • ‘She hadn't done it in such a long time and she was longing for it as though it was the breath of life.’