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How to pronounce lifeline in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms life line, line of life
Type of crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle
Type Words
Type of line
Type Words
Type of line
Has types ridge rope
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Type of support


the airlift provided a lifeline for Berlin.
she offered me a lifeline in my time of grief.

Examples of lifeline

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For parents working unsocial hours, a workplace creche is an essential lifeline.
From the guardian.co.uk
Piza was my lifeline, my passage to London, and held all my personal belongings.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Your property could also be a financial lifeline as you get older, says Rozario.
From the express.co.uk
Communications and information were as much a lifeline as electricity and water.
From the economist.com
They also support proposals to toss a $25 billion financial lifeline to Detroit.
From the businessweek.com
Millions more could be kept from slipping into poverty by the economic lifeline.
From the thestate.com
Bray has way more upside than Stanton, but he also has that Louisville lifeline.
From the news.enquirer.com
However, just over a month later, out of the blue that lifeline was yanked away.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Pakistan reckons it is owed around $2 billion, a much-needed financial lifeline.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Line of life: a crease on the palm; its length is said by palmists to indicate how long you will live
  • Support that enables people to survive or to continue doing something (often by providing an essential connection); "the airlift provided a lifeline for Berlin"; "she offered me a lifeline in my time of grief"
  • Line that raises or lowers a deep-sea diver
  • Line thrown from a vessel that people can cling to in order to save themselves from drowning
  • Lifeline is an album by Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals. The album was recorded in Paris in the fall of 2006 after the lengthy European leg of the Both Sides of the Gun tour. ...
  • "Lifeline" is the second single by Brooke Fraser from her debut album What to Do with Daylight. It was the first single released by Fraser in Australia.
  • Lifeline is a free, 24 hour telephone counselling service in Australia. Volunteer counsellors provide suicide prevention, crisis support and mental health services via telephone. This service can be accessed by calling 13 11 14 within Australia.
  • Lifeline is the fourth EP and eighth overall release by Jesu. It was released on CD on October 4, 2007 in Japan, and October 23, 2007 in America. In 2009, popular music publication Pitchfork Media cited "Lifeline" as "the best non-collaborative release in Broadrick's unwieldy discography."
  • Lifeline is a character from the toy line, comic books and cartoon series of the 1980s. He is the G.I. Joe team's rescue trooper and debuted in 1986.