How to Use from life in a Sentence

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  • Look for kindness — not from him, from life.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • When you’re haunted by something scary, that takes you away from life.
    — Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Your sweet escape from life’s chaos is just a few steps away—through your front or back door.
    — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2025
  • For me that changed it from life or death in the finals to ‘Okay, that’s a game.
    — Anna Dimond, Outside Online, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Bachardy paints only from life and each portrait is done in one session.
    — Michael Slenske, HollywoodReporter, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Everything in the show is a fiction, even if it’s drawn from life.
    — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2023
  • To take food off the table is to remove an element of joy from life.
    — Lisa Shah, STAT, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The firestorm ended up claiming her home and her trunks full of pictures and records from life abroad.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2023
  • That felt important to me, to write about art not just from the context of grad school, but from life.
    — Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • Sometimes broken, but always strong and eager to learn from life.
    — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2022
  • One of the injured was removed from life support and died on May 2.
    — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 31 July 2025
  • The child was declared brain dead and removed from life support Friday evening.
    — Isaac Yu, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2022
  • Both men want more from life than they've been allotted, and both will be disappointed.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The photographer’s gaze is on their faces, on that single moment on their path from life to death.
    — Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
  • But for many of its residents, Hillview Court is a reprieve from life on the streets.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Overall, this is a gift from life, which is this meant, our children being taken care of by the jungle.
    — Kate Perez, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
  • Their trades from life before the camps are flourishing through small businesses.
    — Maansi Srivastava, NPR, 21 July 2026
  • Smith died four days later after being removed from life support.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
  • What once provided a soft transition from life to death also carries past lives of its own.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • After five days in a hospital, he was declared brain dead and removed from life support.
    — Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 11 Dec. 2025
  • An act of mercy freed Josh Rosales from life in a Colorado prison.
    — Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Instead of worrying about the here and now, give yourself permission to check out from life.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Travel can be a quiet retreat, a getaway from life’s monotony, and a simple return to self.
    — Essence, 12 May 2025
  • But artists tend to work from life, with exceptions of course, from photographs or from models posing.
    — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Keisha The feisty girlfriend of Bundy who wants more from life and her relationship.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Nov. 2023
  • A day after her arrival, Nikki was removed from life support.
    — Dan Slepian, NBC news, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Not all art is a theft from life, and not all thefts work onstage—but there are audible sighs of pleasure from the audience.
    — Han Ong, New Yorker, 22 June 2025
  • On the day the toddler was removed from life support, her father was charged with capital murder.
    — Dan Slepian, NBC news, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Life in the Donbas has long differed radically from life in the rest of Ukraine.
    — Melinda Haring, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019
  • And because games are isolated from life, their systems don’t control us the way a real-world metric does.
    — Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026

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