How to Use life force in a Sentence
life force
noun-
That’s the heart of rock ’n’ roll, that’s its life force.
— Jon Pareles, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017 -
The one who keeps them alive and in turn draws his own life force.
— Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 11 Jan. 2023 -
The essence of the performance comes alive with a unique rhythm and life force.
— Beth Wood, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 Sep. 2017 -
The truth that Kamala was talking about has been the life force for me.
— Glamour, 12 Nov. 2018 -
The concept of a flowing life force has been explored around the world.
— Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 26 Mar. 2018 -
Magic Words: My life force flourishes in both the light and the dark.
— Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 11 Aug. 2018 -
There’s a tether between De Shields and the younger dancers, taut as a wire, and life force runs through it.
— Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 27 June 2024 -
Even the great Francis Guinan, playing the grumpy King of France, demurs to this life force.
— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2022 -
Well, so much of the scene was just about losing the life force that had been a huge part of Natalie.
— Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2023 -
The Sun is the pure life force of everything and everyone on Earth.
— Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024 -
Their encounter hints at the life force that’s buried in him, and so does something else, in a perverse way.
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Sep. 2024 -
Empty dining rooms this past year were the vestiges of that life force.
— Danielle Bernabe, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2021 -
And not that the campus landscape crew didn’t do their best each year to spray the life force out of the little devils.
— Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2022 -
Their life force is restored, because their jobs and their dreams are now one.
— New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021 -
This predilection points to a compulsive hold on the life force that had propelled her from the start.
— Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021 -
My feeling about it is that one of the big points of life is trying to be part of the positive life force.
— Katy Steinmetz, Time, 24 Jan. 2018 -
To see yourself as that magnetic life force and to know joy as your birthright.
— Kyle Beechey, Bon Appétit, 29 June 2021 -
The music does that, with consolation in its melodies and a life force in its rhythms.
— Jon Pareles, New York Times, 6 June 2018 -
For farm kids like me, the warm season expedites joining with the life force in the act of creation.
— Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2018 -
In turn, the nobility gave a small portion of their own life force to nourish the gods.
— Kimberly H. Breuer, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024 -
There’s an upside, as well, to the life force on a dance floor, with dozens of people defying time.
— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022 -
There's perhaps no better way to feel the life force of the Blue Ridge Mountains than to set out on one of its hiking trails.
— Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2022 -
To me the point is love between two people that sparks a life force that becomes more than two people.
— Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2022 -
And not as connected to the life force as other women, being so shut up in my thoughts and my head?
— Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018 -
Is the leadership aware of what is draining or refreshing the team’s life force?
— Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 25 June 2021 -
The subjects of these paintings seem to be bursting from the canvas, such is the life force, the ashe, that Biggers has captured with his brush.
— Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022 -
The Chinese believe that ‘chi’ a.k.a one’s ‘vital life force’, is carried in your blood.
— Kaila Yu, Glamour, 26 May 2021 -
The rest of us, seeking tokens of a life force that briefly stared down death, can find them in Philadelphia.
— Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022 -
The showstopper: a sentinel that guarded Tut’s Ka, or life force.
— Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018 -
It is believed that a women’s qi, or life force, is depleted while giving birth.
— Clarissa Wei, Bon Appétit, 16 Sep. 2024
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