How do you use Lifer in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like convict or con, plus the exact meaning.
Lifer meaning
- A prisoner sentenced to life in prison.
- A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life.
- A person with a singular career path, especially in the military.
Using Lifer
- The main meaning on this page is: A prisoner sentenced to life in prison. | A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life. | A person with a singular career path, especially in the military.
- Useful related words include: convict, con, inmate, jail bird.
- In the example corpus, lifer often appears in combinations such as: lifer who, lifer and, washington lifer.
Context around Lifer
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lifer
- In this selection, "lifer" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, party, true, hall, now, spending and explained stand out and add context to how "lifer" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a boeing lifer and engineer and a boring lifer who was. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lifer" sits close to words such as abattoirs, aberrant and abike, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lifer
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Crosby is a Liberal Party lifer. (6 words)
Ita hockey lifer, which meanswatching hockey on a night off.help myself. (12 words)
Mullins is a Manildra lifer, and he's got the battle scars to prove it. (15 words)
Barack Obama: An older white man and Washington lifer with deep foreign policy experience is paired with a younger, Black running mate with immigrant roots who has been in the Senate just four years yet still has managed to carve out a national profile. (44 words)
The gist: Brady saw the game better than anyone Belichick — a 71-year-old football lifer who just completed his 48th season as an NFL coach — has ever met, and the QB’s incomparable football IQ was the bedrock of their relationship. (42 words)
The Boeing CEO doesn’t stalk factory floors like his predecessor, Dennis Muilenburg, a Boeing lifer and engineer by training who was forced out over his handling of the Max grounding in the wake of the two accidents. (38 words)
He was like a boring lifer who was supposed to get things in order, right? (15 words)
Aaaaand they sent me home with these heart shaped macaroons so you know I’m a lifer now! (18 words)
Example sentences (20)
Call me a no-lifer if you want, but the ads on Fark mobile are so hungry, after 20 days of browsing, I would often get 3 to 4 gigs of data consumption.
Crosby is a Liberal Party lifer.
He’s a true Lifer, and I still remember that championship glory that he gave us.
Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson on Thursday chose Guidice, a respected City Hall lifer, to fill the most important role a mayor has to fill, particularly one without executive experience.
The 53-year-old baseball lifer is humbled by the long journey to his dream job.
The gist: Brady saw the game better than anyone Belichick — a 71-year-old football lifer who just completed his 48th season as an NFL coach — has ever met, and the QB’s incomparable football IQ was the bedrock of their relationship.
Barack Obama: An older white man and Washington lifer with deep foreign policy experience is paired with a younger, Black running mate with immigrant roots who has been in the Senate just four years yet still has managed to carve out a national profile.
For me to say that, and not consider that he was a lifer, was just not cool.
Ita hockey lifer, which meanswatching hockey on a night off.help myself.
Kalain Hadley, left, is a former three-strikes lifer who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
Mullins is a Manildra lifer, and he's got the battle scars to prove it.
Stephen Austin, a former juvenile lifer who spent 43 years in prison, runs the anger management program.
The Boeing CEO doesn’t stalk factory floors like his predecessor, Dennis Muilenburg, a Boeing lifer and engineer by training who was forced out over his handling of the Max grounding in the wake of the two accidents.
Aaaaand they sent me home with these heart shaped macaroons so you know I’m a lifer now!
As the passive-aggressive, attention-starved server, Vaccaro is frustrating and hilarious, the most stereotypical version of a hospitality industry lifer.
For its history, Intel always promoted from within, and every CEO has been a lifer whose only professional job was with Intel.
George McDonald is a hip-hop lifer, spending the last decade on the road after cultivating a rabid local fanbase in and around town.
He was like a boring lifer who was supposed to get things in order, right?
One lifer explained how his trusted status was revoked and his pay put to the bottom of the scale when he was accused of taking a wrench from the workshop, something he said he did not do.
The Nissan lifer, 65, betrayed few emotions as he sat alone, taking questions after the board had finished explaining his departure.
Common combinations with lifer
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: