How to Use lifer in a Sentence

lifer

noun

• He was a lifer at the factory.
• And the lifers love to talk about how much the city has grown.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
• The three juvenile lifers in the ACLU suit are not the 2019 parolees.
  — Hannah Gaskill, baltimoresun.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• Bring him back, keep him next to the 25-year-old Tatum, and build around a core that has the chance to be Celtic lifers.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
• In many ways, Caron has been a Heat lifer even while spending the past 16 years away from the Heat.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2020
• The horse world has a lot of lifers who are dedicated to the sport.
  — Nora Princiotti, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
• The Kiffins aren’t the only football lifers on FAU’s staff.
  — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• Leonard was in position to be the next great Spurs lifer.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
• Below, Taylor Swift’s best and worst songs of all time, told through the lens of a Swiftie lifer.
  — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2020
• Laufman, who lives just up the road in Coconut Creek, is a baseball lifer who plays for the love of the game.
  — Emmett Hall, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• Goodrum, now 26, is bound to be a baseball lifer because of that approach to the game.
  — George Stoia, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2018
• Frazier, 33, is a baseball lifer, but do not ask him how to break in a mitt.
  — Kevin Armstrong, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• McCullough, a Plano lifer, will now watch Plano East from the stands.
  — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2022
• The 2014 inductee to the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame has been a broadcast lifer.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Aug. 2022
• The child lifers were also reaching out beyond the prison walls.
  — Issie Lapowsky Abdul Kircher, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• These low-lifers are old enough to know right from wrong and good citizens' hands should not be tied.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Sep. 2017
• The players get to play and Whittingham, a football lifer, gets to coach.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Nov. 2020
• So what to do with the fact that EXO may or may not look to the Southern gentleman and fried chicken lifer as a style muse?
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 26 Feb. 2018
• That’s the kind of value that makes buyers into lifers.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• So far, the board has approved about 80 percent of lifers who’ve sought parole.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Still, the music lifer who started writing songs at age 12 can’t help but lean on old tropes.
  — Dan Hyman, SPIN, 24 June 2022
• Simmons knew him as a lifer who did laundry in exchange for goods from the canteen.
  — CBS News, 27 June 2017
• Even with all these lifers on hand, Wango Tango made room for some of the flash-in-the-pan acts that keep Top 40 radio moving.
  — Mikael Wood, latimes.com, 14 May 2017
• Mack Jenkins, a 52-year-old Reds lifer, was not the man to tutor fledgling pitchers.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• But fans will have to jump through a few spaghetti hoops for the privilege of being a pasta-pass lifer.
  — Kate Bowers, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2019
• Mellencamp has played nearly a dozen Indiana shows over the past year, but here's one final chance on the tour for the homers, the lifers, the all-timers.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Jan. 2024
• DeSmith became a Pens lifer since departing the Durham campus in the spring of 2014.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2023
• Unlike pro-lifers, its acolytes have no desire to protect life for its own sake.
  — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 22 Aug. 2017
• Unlike many of the other Colstrip lifers who share their stories, several of Williams’ kids have left town.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• Conventional wisdom in the business world holds that a company lifer can be a risky choice as a new CEO.
  — Byphil Wahba and Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 28 May 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024