How To Use For dear life In A Sentence
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At thirty-eight seconds to go Tito delivered a pin-point left uppercut which had Ricardo hanging on for dear life.
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A brace of ptarmigan flutter away for dear life.
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Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
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Steve stood at the bow of the ship, unprotected from the storm and hanging on for dear life as he pointed excitedly.
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My heart goes out to particular moments and people, both recent and distant, and holds on for dear life, impervious to happiness or unhappiness.
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If you are holding a pen, are you gripping it for dear life with your fingers clenched around it so that the knuckles show?
Healthy By Nature
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She just clung to me for dear life.
The Sun
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Miri gripped the gunwales and held on for dear life as the boat careened from wave to wave, bouncing from rock to hidden rock.
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Peter seized a staff and began to lay on for dear life.
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Bianca clutched Marcia's flyaway hair for dear life.
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Clinging to his picture for dear life.
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If you are with a lady friend, make sure you cling to her for dear life and make sure all gestures of affection are as ostentatious as possible.
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Sated on art, we ventured out into the frizz zone, clutching our zebra-print umbrella for dear life.
Tara Solomon: For the Love of Liz, and Other Miami Moments
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He was running for dear life.
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She grasped the side of the boat and hung on for dear life .
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I don't know if it's just a phase, or separation related, but as we walk to school, or around the neighbourhood at the weekend, they both hold on for dear life, as if they might mislay me somewhere between the supermarket and the house.
Diary of a separation
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He seized a club and began to lay on for dear life.
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With pieces of burning masonry falling all around her, she ran for dear life.
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She was holding on to the rope for dear life.
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The light faded at last, and Anne, with a sudden recollection of - the partly-knit stocking which she had "stinted" herself to finish before bed-time, for that staving lad, her brother Harry, exclaimed: "Madge, dear, light the gas and read Mill to me, while I knit for dear life!
The Womans Advocate
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He addressed the sailor that was aloft clutching the rigging for dear life.
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I held onto the door handle for dear life and hoped that the 1990s pop sounds from the stereo would mellow his mood.
Times, Sunday Times
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He ran for dear life toward his house.
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And he catches her, holding onto her for dear life.
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She (along with my father) can be credited with my not, at this very moment, lying naked (apart from a pair of sunglasses) in a gutter somewhere, a variety of illegal substances coursing through my system, nursing a broken nose with one last remaining snaggle-tooth hanging on for dear life.
Jason Kitchen: To My Dearest Mumsy: Thank You for Not Being a 'Tiger Mother'
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I flattened myself against the wall for dear life, and somehow, somehow, he never noticed me.
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This meant climbing to the top of the 80 ft mast in a safety harness, with the yacht plunging in gusts of wind and a choppy sea, and holding on for dear life for five hours while she attached a spare halyard.
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I made for the life raft and hung on for dear life.
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If you are holding a pen, are you gripping it for dear life with your fingers clenched around it so that the knuckles show?
Healthy By Nature
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he was running for dear life
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She hung on for dear life.
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But for the rest, and that's close on half the top 20, ambition now revolves around grasping the coat-tails of the boom-boom bandwagon and hanging on for dear life as it rattles along a road ridged around a ravine.
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Tyrhenae bit her bottom lip, as she held onto the stair above her for dear life.
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My brother and I were brought over by a coyote who took us to a remote location where we had to squirm under a fence and then run for dear life.
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Those of the crew not gathered at the stern held on for dear life to whatever they could or scrambled to the front of the forecastle to brace against it.
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She held on to the tree for dear life.
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Or, these inseparable couples could be holding on for dear life, dangling just slightly above eye level so we look up at them pryingly, like equally helpless children.
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She was sewing as for dear life, and her face was primmer and colder than ever.
Chronicles of Avonlea
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Alex's cold hands went to Michelle's neck, and strangled her for dear life.
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O'Hara wouldn't wake, so I just lifted him on board like a sack, tossed in his cornet and my bombardon, tumbled in on top of them, and started to row for dear life towards the ship's light in the offing.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
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There is a group of about 40 men bunched behind the CSC train, a long line of men clinging for dear life, and then little groups strung out here and there behind the pack.
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I use the word dignity in a tongue-in-cheek way, because I realized I hadn't come far in the past 31 years when it comes to letting go of summer without wrapping my body around it and holding on for dear life.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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A glance back showed Barriss hanging on for dear life, while Anakin's expression alternated between grim determination and youthful alarm.
The Cat is a Metaphor
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But even then it was only to take to the woods on foot, groping through the night with your hand at one man's belt while another held you behind, trying for dear life not to thrash about like a mad bear in a cane-break, gripping your rifle and gritting your teeth against the pain of saddle-sore buttocks.
Isabelle
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I couldn't see to read it, I wouldn't have understood it anyway, I was pumped full of morphine. I just held on to it for dear life.
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We had to hold on for dear life.
The Sun
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This meant climbing to the top of the 80 ft mast in a safety harness, with the yacht plunging in gusts of wind and a choppy sea, and holding on for dear life for five hours while she attached a spare halyard.
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My stallion reared and whinnied, causing Desiree to hold on for dear life.
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We had to hold on for dear life.
The Sun
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He was allowed quarter of an hour for pressgang work, and sure enough he came back within a very reasonable time with a few spare hands, and then -- paddling and poling for dear life -- we glided swiftly through the tangled lily-pads and the green rosettes of the Singhara, and soon were _in medias res_ and fairly committed to the deep.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan.
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Eventually they provided me with a pass, to which I held on for dear life.
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The little boy rode the pony , holding on for dear life.
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As the ship began to tilt, we clung on for dear life.
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I flailed my arms for a hold on the stone, and by the grace of God my left hand fell on the nearside rail, and I was hanging on for dear life, my chest on the stone, my bleeding belly below the brink of the chasm, and the rest of me dangling into the void.
Watershed
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She just clung to me for dear life.
The Sun
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The man, swimming for dear life in the water, grabbed the bobstays as the vessel pitched downward and climbed on deck.
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As one experienced caddie put it: 'Make your score on the front nine and hang on for dear life coming home.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a knack to dealing with a mango, which contains a long, thin stone to which the flesh clings for dear life.
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The crew held on for dear life in anticipation of the collision.
