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Example sentences for "life when"

  • It marks an epoch in a man's life when he first catches sight of a prairie landscape, especially if that landscape be one of those great rolling ones to be seen nowhere so well as in Minnesota.

  • And he lay down again, saying: "Well, it can never be quite dark in a man's life when he has one friend.

  • There comes a time in every man's life when it grows dark, Davy, and then the cowards are afraid.

  • He seemed to bring a new freshness into my life when I was beginning to feel the staleness of it.

  • There was a time of my life when I was consumed with a desire for foreign travel; an impatience of everything familiar fretted me through all the changing year.

  • That was one of the moments of my life when I have tasted exquisite joy.

  • There was a time in my life when, if I had suddenly been set in the position I now enjoy, conscience would have lain in ambush for me.

  • I did it in two journeys--this being the only time in my life when I thought of Gibbon in avoirdupois.

  • Her hair is streaked with gray, and she has arrived at that time of life when, for preference, she sits and talks to visitors with her back to the light.

  • I never went armed in my life when I could help it, for I hate impedimenta in my pockets.

  • This was partly because I was married, and I never saw the day in my life when to be regarded as a real Bohemian vagabond, or shiftless person, would not have given me the horrors.

  • When I think of the number of times in my life when I have walked past bar-rooms and neglected to go in and take a drink, I must think that it is a retribution.

  • But now they come through months and months of cruel torture, and at a time of life when he is least able to bear it.

  • You have reached a time of life when it is not wise to take these risks.

  • A garden is nearly always beautiful, and the sea always, always promises adventure, even when we have reached that time of life when to "pass over" is the only chance of adventure left to us.

  • Yet the husband and child I abandoned have saved my miserable life, saved the man too who came into my life when I was free to marry again.

  • There are moments in life when a higher law operates than is writ in the text-books.

  • The days of one's life when one is a girl and loves one's man are so few.

  • There had been a moment in Ellen's life when, whether he were thinking of her or not, there was no place in his life where she might not go, and now the foundation of a real affection was lacking between them, and that foundation is sincerity.

  • But two days after, to the great surprise of all present, he returned to life when laid on the funeral pile.

  • This was proved by their having come back to life when placed in the Towers of Silence in Bombay.

  • It is quite certain that in poisoning by chloral, and in catalepsy, there may be life when no external movement of the chest is appreciable.

  • In the first place, it has often been pointed out that a time of sickness is the one period of life when we know for certain that we are doing God's will; for we have no alternative.

  • There are moments in life when we repent having been too good, for goodness sometimes is but a sign of weakness and inexperience; it only shows our unfitness for the great struggle of life, where the weak go to the wall.

  • I repeat, then, in closing, that the test which proves the excellence of the religion of Christ is the fact that it fits us for those solemn hours of life when we must be alone.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "life when" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    given case; great share; life after; life again; life away; life before; life estate; life for; life freely; life goes; life have; life history; life insurance; life long; life member; life phenomena; life seemed; life size; life that; life unto; life would; made use; mamma says; please your; this society; your uncle