How to Use life-changing in a Sentence

life-changing

adjective
  • The next year turned out to be life-changing.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
  • For many, these are life-changing jobs.
    — Mike Keogh, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In White’s case, the surgery was life-changing.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Of course, there was still one band and their life-changing songs on the bill.
    — John Lonsdale, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Was life-changing love left on the table?
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • This mental shift can be life-changing for you and your team.
    — Raquel Gomes, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • This was life-changing for my mental health.
    — Self Staff, SELF, 9 Jan. 2026
  • His cancer has been life-changing for him in more way than one.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
  • What looks like survival pay here can be life-changing abroad.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Turns out, her instincts paid off with a life-changing win.
    — Daniella Segura, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2025
  • This work is life-changing for both the patient and the provider.
    — Devan Dalla, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And that was the life-changing moment.
    — Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Turns out, his father’s last-minute gift would prove to be life-changing.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 4 Apr. 2025
  • For some, a $4 million bonus would be life-changing.
    — Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Then came a life-changing trip to Utah a year later.
    — Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026
  • That song to me was one of those life-changing moments in my career.
    — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Both of these are life-changing moments getting lots of time here.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024
  • For Mullen, the journey has been life-changing.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • For other dancers, the exchange proves to be life-changing in a good way.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
  • One person could win a life-changing amount of money.
    — Nick Lunemann, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • This will be life-changing for people who have been living with high drug costs.
    — Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
  • None were deemed to be life-threatening or life-changing.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
  • For them, joining the choir was a life-changing moment.
    — Billboard Arabia, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2025
  • For breast cancer patients, that help can be life-changing.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 27 Oct. 2025
  • That book, and the rest of Carl’s work, was pretty life-changing for me.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The song has been called life-changing, life-saving, and cathartic.
    — Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Even more life-changing was the store’s buyback system.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The upcoming weeks will bring life-changing events.
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The dad-of-two embraced his youngest son and held him aloft before the life-changing surgery.
    — Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
  • So for some of these women, this is going to be life-changing money.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023

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