How to Use life force in a Sentence

life force

noun
  • What’s the difference between a technically competent film and one that seems to have a life force?
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • He’s saved by Towa, queen of a nearby kingdom, who can restore life force at great cost to herself via a cursed tiara.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Live shows, the life force of stand-up comedy, instantly became a relic of the past.
    Jenny Zhang, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Rogue can absorb the powers, memories and even life force of others through touch.
    Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024

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