Below you will find example sentences with "life threatening". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Life Threatening in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: threatening
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 12
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 22.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 0 start, 7 middle, 13 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "life threatening" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 22.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as but not life threatening, to be life threatening, injuries, hospital and taken stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with battery life, life sciences, everyday life, threatening injuries, threatening behaviour and using threatening, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with life threatening
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
All victims were left with serious, but not life threatening injuries. (11 words)
A man driving the Chevrolet was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. (14 words)
Edmonton Police Service described the woman's injuries as serious but not life threatening. (14 words)
A teenage boy driving the car and three other passengers, an adult teenager, a teenage girl and a male youth, were taken to Cork University Hospital to receive treatment for non-life threatening injuries. (34 words)
A two-year-old boy suffered a minor injury to his lip and was taken to Sheffield Children's Hospital, where his injuries are not believed to be life threatening or life changing. (33 words)
But less urgent calls under Category 2, where situations are not deemed to be life threatening, were expected to have a longer wait time than usual for an ambulance. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
Four stabbing victims are reportedly in critical condition with possibly life threatening injuries, while two police officers reportedly suffered moderate, non-life-threatening injuries.
The operators of both sleds were taken to hospital, one with non-life threatening injuries and the other with life-threatening injuries.
A two-year-old boy suffered a minor injury to his lip and was taken to Sheffield Children's Hospital, where his injuries are not believed to be life threatening or life changing.
The passenger, a 19-year-old boy, has also been taken to hospital, but thankfully his injuries are not believed to be life threatening or life changing.
The spokesperson said the rider was taken to hospital for treatment to injuries that were believed to be serious but not life threatening or life changing.
It's hard enough being a teenager but having life threatening food allergies complicates life even more.
Adults who drink around two litres of water a day develop fewer life threatening illnesses such as heart and lung disease.
All victims were left with serious, but not life threatening injuries.
A man driving the Chevrolet was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Annemarie, a secondary school teacher, was taken to Mayo University Hospital for treatment for injuries that are understood to be non-life threatening.
Another man was taken to hospital with a stab injury but his injury is not believed to be life threatening.
A police spokesperson described their injuries as “lacerations rather than stab wounds” and “not life threatening”.
A second 19-year-old as also injured during the fight and was taken to hospital with injuries not thought to be life threatening.
A second man, also unidentified, was found nearby with non-life threatening gunshot wounds and was transported to the hospital for treatment.
A teenage boy driving the car and three other passengers, an adult teenager, a teenage girl and a male youth, were taken to Cork University Hospital to receive treatment for non-life threatening injuries.
At that time already, the Russians anticipated a possible breach of the dam with the consequence of dangerous, life threatening flooding downstream.
A woman has been rushed to an East London hospital in a life threatening condition after being hit by an HGV in Hackney this morning.
Blaine is currently being treated in hospital where his condition is described as 'serious but not life threatening'.
But less urgent calls under Category 2, where situations are not deemed to be life threatening, were expected to have a longer wait time than usual for an ambulance.
Edmonton Police Service described the woman's injuries as serious but not life threatening.