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
• 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
• 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
• The players get to play and Whittingham, a football lifer, gets to coach.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s boss, is a Bible-reading company lifer who looks the part, from the cut of his jaw to the azure of his eyes.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2019
• But Miles had seen dozens of Cooper’s, his lifer coming two years ago at Mohonk.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• And the end result is that the Johnsons, once reluctant theme park owners, are now theme park lifers.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• His father, a coaching lifer, put in 33 years at the US Naval Academy.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• At least one lifer, a man who personally saw many of the squads in contention for the title of best ever, agrees.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2018
• The tenth candidate to interview for the Colts head coaching job is a football lifer in every sense of the word.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 21 Jan. 2023
• The Elm Thicket holdouts, the lifers who fought off the politicians and criminals, were aging.
  — Robert Wilonsky, Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2020
• The screenplay co-credits Leigh Brackett, a sci-fi pulp lifer who co-wrote Howard Hawks classics.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• If Vargas wasn’t busy enough, there was a need for a coach in the senior division and the CCO lifer stepped up to undertake the coaching reigns.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• Before his departure, the baseball lifer taught Hill about the nuances of bunting.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2022
• Kirgan, who joined Macy's in 2017 as head of HR, is hardly a Macy's lifer.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2021
• What wins Trump the most praise from pro-lifers is his judicial appointments.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024