How to Use lifeblood in a Sentence

lifeblood

noun

• The neighborhoods are the lifeblood of this city.
• The town's lifeblood has always been its fishing industry.
• If that falls, there goes part of the lifeblood of the place.
  — Chris Willman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2020
• Dancers in the WeChat group said Mr. Ma was the lifeblood of the studio.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2023
• Players who aren't the stars but are still the lifeblood of the sport.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• Hearn said the return of fans was vital to the lifeblood of the sport.
  — John Whisler, ExpressNews.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• Now that kind of movement is part of the N.B.A.’s lifeblood.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2020
• Water is the lifeblood of this place and all of West Texas.
  — Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2021
• Just as sap is the lifeblood of the maple tree, maple syrup is the lifeblood of Canada.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
• The Star Ferry grew to become part of the lifeblood of Hong Kong.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Yes-and-no questions like this are in some ways the lifeblood of Kalshi.
  — Declan Harty, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2021
• Cash is the lifeblood of the small business or startup.
  — Bernhard Schroeder, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Of course, water is the lifeblood of our state and district.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
• And fresh talent, in any era, is the lifeblood of a thriving art form.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
• General stores are the lifeblood of small towns, in good times and in bad.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2024
• Soon the dairy lost its contract with the Springfield schools – its lifeblood.
  — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2022
• None of us can have meetings at the moment, and that’s our lifeblood.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
• Those conversations have long been part of the lifeblood of the game.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• Subways and buses are the lifeblood of dense cities like New York.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 14 Dec. 2020
• But our team in Glendale is the lifeblood of the company.
  — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
• Along the way, Twitch has mostly maintained the good will of the streamers who are its lifeblood.
  — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2022
• Coffee was his lifeblood through years in the service and then his job.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• That link between memory and ghosts and between ghosts and the past, that is the lifeblood of the show.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2020
• Small businesses, the lifeblood of Main Street, saw years of hard work wiped out.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2020
• Covid meant that competition—the lifeblood of the sport—was put on hold.
  — Martina Navratilova, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
• Will Venice one day have to cut itself off from the waters that are its lifeblood?
  — Emma Bubola Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• Now is not the time to withhold the lifeblood that young people can bring to the economy.
  — Dan Rosensweig, Fortune, 2 June 2021
• Sales Volume Sales are the lifeblood that keeps the heart of your business beating.
  — Melissa Houston, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• Small-business owners are the lifeblood of communities.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• Its lifeblood is the active participation and engagement of citizens every day to create a more perfect union.
  — Peggy O’Neal Faith Matters, arkansasonline.com, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024