How to Use life-giving in a Sentence

life-giving

adjective
  • The benefit of a swarm is that some can break down, and the life-giving mining will continue.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
  • This in turn created a shallow inland sea that was rich in these life-giving nutrients.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Given Cregger’s scary-good track record, this one may be as refreshing as a life-giving green herb.
    — Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026
  • Adobos, whether with three chiles or the lone suave guajillo chile, become life-giving purees for marinated fish, chicken and beef shank.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • One of the property’s coolest features is an outdoor structure designed to celebrate the life-giving energy of the sun.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Such features can arise from chemical reactions that could provide life-giving energy for microbes.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 26 July 2024
  • After a lifetime of holding the life-giving truths in his throat, Jake’s fuse is too old and weathered to trigger an explosive confession.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The Sun, our life-giving star, will eventually fade, plunging Earth into an eternal winter.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Nov. 2024
  • If the experience of illness is inevitably one of sapping solipsism, caretaking is its life-giving corollary.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Or maybe an even larger body, a mini-Neptune, could hold a water ocean under a thick hydrogen atmosphere that lets in just enough life-giving light.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 20 June 2024
  • Until that point, humans had never been able to recreate the life-giving power generated in the center of our Sun on Earth.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023
  • There was a time when nature stretched far beyond the horizon, infinite and abundant, its power visible in the graceful sway of trees and the roaring, life-giving rush of rivers.
    — Ashlee Marie Preston, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Hall, 59, had missed essential life-giving dialysis treatments, so something must be very wrong, family members said.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The waters that live underground also provide life-giving water in another direction.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2023
  • His skills enable English-speaking readers access to Arikawa’s gentle, snarky, aloof, life-giving furry heroes.
    — Terry Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The church leader in charge of translating and distributing biblical literature around the world made an impassioned call for funds, likening the texts to life-giving rain.
    — Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
  • The sun's radiation bathes Earth in life-giving energy, and yet, radiation can also create havoc for life.
    — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Slabs of paint applied with a brush-and-palette-knife technique fuse with sheer cliffs beneath a canopy of bare branches, a life-giving stream emerging from the murky depths of a gorge (the title’s puits-noir, or black ravine).
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
  • So far this year, artists have painted murals that include two of the city's basketball icons and sculpted a shining celebration of water's life-giving properties.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But such advice, unlike the ancient texts, fails to distinguish between God’s life-giving melakhah and the soul-sucking avodah that comprises many modern lives.
    — Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The ocean is also critical for climate regulation, life-giving oxygen, and supporting the livelihoods of billions of people.
    — Rajesh Jadhav, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Women have life-giving power, women have medicine, women have innate strength, women have the ability to commune with Mother Earth, right?
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The spa is based on ancient ideas about the Mossman River as a life-giving force—reinforcing the sense that a deep connection to nature is everything here.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Comfort expands as the life-giving Sun stirs your domestic 4th house, inviting practical improvements that make your nest feel freer and more supportive.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Your 5th House of Discovery brightens as mischievous Mercury conjoins the life-giving Sun.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • When Beverly enters the space, encased in shadow but punctuated by the glow of its life-giving instruments, Elliot is lying on the floor.
    — Vulture, 4 May 2023
  • For years, those life-giving waters were threatened by the massive Grand Canyon Escalade development, which would have brought tens of thousands of tourists a day to the sacred site.
    — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 5 July 2018
  • An accurate map of the icy areas can help planetary scientists distinguish between different ways water moves across the lunar surface, and learn how the life-giving compound got there in the first place.
    — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Now, supporters of public television hope that Ross’ scenic paintings and egalitarian approach to art will bring life-giving funds to local programming.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025

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