How to Use life-giving in a Sentence

life-giving

adjective
  • The benefit of a swarm is that some can break down, and the life-giving mining will continue.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
  • Caffeine for you, play time for your kid: 9 L.A. playgrounds near life-giving coffee shops.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024
  • But the effect is the same: a regeneration of life-giving water.
    — Mary Forgione, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • This in turn created a shallow inland sea that was rich in these life-giving nutrients.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Slabs of paint applied with a brush-and-palette-knife technique fuse with sheer cliffs beneath a canopy of bare branches, a life-giving stream emerging from the murky depths of a gorge (the title’s puits-noir, or black ravine).
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Until that point, humans had never been able to recreate the life-giving power generated in the center of our Sun on Earth.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • One of the property’s coolest features is an outdoor structure designed to celebrate the life-giving energy of the sun.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2024
  • There was a time when nature stretched far beyond the horizon, infinite and abundant, its power visible in the graceful sway of trees and the roaring, life-giving rush of rivers.
    — Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The spa is based on ancient ideas about the Mossman River as a life-giving force—reinforcing the sense that a deep connection to nature is everything here.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Or maybe an even larger body, a mini-Neptune, could hold a water ocean under a thick hydrogen atmosphere that lets in just enough life-giving light.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
  • The life-giving Sun and mental Mercury are connecting in your 2nd House of Salary, making this the perfect time to go over your finances with extra care and ensure that everything meets your standards.
    — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • But such advice, unlike the ancient texts, fails to distinguish between God’s life-giving melakhah and the soul-sucking avodah that comprises many modern lives.
    — Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The churning of the ocean was an event, famous in Hindu literature, in which the devas, or deities, and the asuras, or demonic beings, joined forces to acquire a life-giving substance called amrita that had sunk to the ocean floor.
    — Jeffery D. Long, The Conversation, 11 July 2023
  • When Beverly enters the space, encased in shadow but punctuated by the glow of its life-giving instruments, Elliot is lying on the floor.
    — Vulture, 4 May 2023
  • Women have life-giving power, women have medicine, women have innate strength, women have the ability to commune with Mother Earth, right?
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Transformers One takes place on robotic planet Cybertron, where Bumblebee and his friends toil in mines for its life-giving material — and are unable as of yet to transform.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024
  • His skills enable English-speaking readers access to Arikawa’s gentle, snarky, aloof, life-giving furry heroes.
    — Terry Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
  • To southern Arizona’s original inhabitants, the Sky Islands are a place of healing and life-giving energy.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • An accurate map of the icy areas can help planetary scientists distinguish between different ways water moves across the lunar surface, and learn how the life-giving compound got there in the first place.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The sun's radiation bathes Earth in life-giving energy, and yet, radiation can also create havoc for life.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Federal authorities are investigating the killing of five wild burros who were found shot to death near life-giving springs on the western edge of Death Valley National Park, where 20-mule teams once pulled wagons of borax.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
  • For such a life-giving planet, Earth’s environmental systems, which include everything from ocean currents and storms to heat waves and ice flows, are delicately balanced.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Such features can arise from chemical reactions that could provide life-giving energy for microbes.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 26 July 2024
  • In a world where everyone wants to be so self-reliant, Godden shows us through her novels the life-giving beauty of strong personal connection, particularly from parents and teachers.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The ocean's life-giving gift can be felt as far away from the coast as the Serengeti savannah and the Amazon forest, where a rich biodiversity is dependent on seasonal rains created by the evaporation of ocean moisture into the atmosphere.
    — Vogue, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The waters that live underground also provide life-giving water in another direction.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The basic, life-giving joy of hobbies like gallery-viewing may be unavailable to us, but seeing versions of these experiences represented by our community continues to be a heartening, life-giving force.
    — Vanessa Labi, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This envy of motherhood might be linked to a broader admiration for the nurturing and life-giving roles traditionally associated with women.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • And yet, today, vibrant, life-giving practices of belonging nurture understanding, peacefulness and the continued growth of interfaith activities.
    — Lize Burr, Austin American-Statesman, 25 June 2024

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