Example Sentences

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The Rainbow, then, is the story of those origins; of woman as the eternal life-giver who, through time and change, is finally driven to give birth to herself.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2011

But your old seatmate Charlie O. is not the pink-cheeked life-giver he pretends to be.

From Time Magazine Archive

They repeated it, and wrote it down as a recipe, "Love is a life-giver."

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

The sun is the life-giver to the physical bodies of all creatures upon earth; without its warmth their growth would be stunted, their development would be arrested, they would decay and die.

From Paris Talks by `Abdu'l-Bahá

This is his distinction; he is the life-giver.

From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John