Sentence example with the word 'lifework'

lifework

activity, campaign, cause, drive, handicraft, line of business, mission, occupation, pursuit, specialty, walk of life

Definition n. the principal work of your career

Last update: July 14, 2015


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If Elijah is the prophet of the fall of Omri's dynasty, Elisha is no less the prophet of Jehu and his successors; and it is extremely probable that his lifework was confined to the dynasty which he inaugurated.'   [Please select]

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After a year at the Seminary he reached the conclusion that his true lifework lay in literature, and he at once began to fit himself for his vocation.   [Please select]

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He found Jerry Shorter in a receptive mood, and drew him into Cecil Grainger's study, where this latter gentleman, when awake, carried on his lifework of keeping a record of prize winners.   [Please select]

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The new minister and his wife were a young, pleasant-faced couple, still on their honeymoon, and full of all good and beautiful enthusiasms for their chosen lifework.   [Please select]

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In 1638, at the age of nine and twenty, Milton has already determined that this lifework shall be a poem, an epic poem, and that its subject shall probably be the Arthurian legend.   [Please select]

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"A scandal," continued mamma, in a crescendo sweep, "that all but undid my lifework for the family's position, and that may yet cost your father his presidency at the bank."   [Please select]

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