Below you will find example sentences with "own lives". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Own Lives in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: lives
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 0 start, 12 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "own lives" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and their own lives, develop their own lives, people, take and others stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with lives matter, black lives, saving lives, lives matter and black lives, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with own lives
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
We have our own journeys, our own lives. (8 words)
They risk their own lives in order to save lives. (10 words)
Well, are there certain signs that we should be looking for in our own lives, in our personal lives? (19 words)
Dr. Andreas Kappes, lead author of the study and a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at City University of London, said: “Our research shows that we see not only our own lives through rose-tinted glasses, but also the lives of those we care about. (46 words)
It’s not just film work that the A-lister is focused on, though — the kids at home take up quite a bit of time, too, even as they grow into their own personal interests and develop their own lives. (40 words)
Even now, with scientists warning of a ‘climate emergency’, of imminent catastrophe, and even of human extinction, corporate interests are continuing their campaign of denial, even though their own lives and the lives of their children are at stake. (39 words)
Well, are there certain signs that we should be looking for in our own lives, in our personal lives? (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
He issued a charge to graduates to foster the ability to choose in their own lives and in the lives of others.
Well, are there certain signs that we should be looking for in our own lives, in our personal lives?
If we heed public health warnings and we value our own lives, as well as the lives of our family members and friends, we must adjust.
They risk their own lives in order to save lives.
Even now, with scientists warning of a ‘climate emergency’, of imminent catastrophe, and even of human extinction, corporate interests are continuing their campaign of denial, even though their own lives and the lives of their children are at stake.
Howe stated that the IRA members "made movements which led the military personnel, operating in support of the Gibraltar Police, to conclude that their own lives and the lives of others were under threat".
Dr. Andreas Kappes, lead author of the study and a lecturer in the Department of Psychology at City University of London, said: “Our research shows that we see not only our own lives through rose-tinted glasses, but also the lives of those we care about.
I thought it was because he promised to fix the lives of people who won't take the personal responsibility to fix their own lives either through education or labor mobility.
Some of these individuals who seek to “go out” this way take their own lives when the responders arrive, or they commit “suicide by cop” and end their lives in a shootout.
Youth empowerment therefore, is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement changes in their own lives and the lives of other people, including adults.
Staff at a restaurant described their co-workers' lives as more determined (having fewer future possibilities) than their own lives.
Iwagakure is a strong nation full of dedicated shinobi who will lay down their own lives for the Tsuchikage, even if it comes at the cost of their own life.
We have our own journeys, our own lives.
It’s not just film work that the A-lister is focused on, though — the kids at home take up quite a bit of time, too, even as they grow into their own personal interests and develop their own lives.
One of the things I’d like to do with the exhibition is prompt people to think about their own sins and their ideas about sin and what that means in their own lives.
So she decided to take things into her own hands and began a support group for the loved ones of people who take their own lives.
The people around you have their own lives to cope with, their own problems that they don’t inflict on others.
Believing that people would be better off if they took responsibility for their own lives, Miles aspires to host his own Sirius XM radio show.
It is not just a moral issue that touches on demographic groups that are unimportant to people when they think about their own families and their own lives.
May it awaken us to the preciousness of our own lives, the power of our own choices, help us to guard against forces of violence and hate whatever their source.