How to Use lifeblood in a Sentence

lifeblood

noun

• The neighborhoods are the lifeblood of this city.
• The town's lifeblood has always been its fishing industry.
• If that falls, there goes part of the lifeblood of the place.
  — Chris Willman, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2020
• Dancers in the WeChat group said Mr. Ma was the lifeblood of the studio.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2023
• Players who aren't the stars but are still the lifeblood of the sport.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• Hearn said the return of fans was vital to the lifeblood of the sport.
  — John Whisler, ExpressNews.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• Now that kind of movement is part of the N.B.A.’s lifeblood.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2020
• Water is the lifeblood of this place and all of West Texas.
  — Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2021
• Just as sap is the lifeblood of the maple tree, maple syrup is the lifeblood of Canada.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
• The Star Ferry grew to become part of the lifeblood of Hong Kong.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Yes-and-no questions like this are in some ways the lifeblood of Kalshi.
  — Declan Harty, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2021
• Cash is the lifeblood of the small business or startup.
  — Bernhard Schroeder, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• For most of the town’s history, Rusal has been the lifeblood of Sayanogorsk.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 2 July 2018
• Of course, water is the lifeblood of our state and district.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
• Lights strung along the promenade form shapes of the town's lifeblood.
  — Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Change the Oil: The lifeblood of any engine is its motor oil.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2019
• And fresh talent, in any era, is the lifeblood of a thriving art form.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2020
• General stores are the lifeblood of small towns, in good times and in bad.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2024
• Soon the dairy lost its contract with the Springfield schools – its lifeblood.
  — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2022
• With that comes a gamble on tourism, the lifeblood of the economy.
  — Paul Tugwell, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2020
• None of us can have meetings at the moment, and that’s our lifeblood.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
• Its lifeblood is winter snows and glaciers in the mountains.
  — National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• Those conversations have long been part of the lifeblood of the game.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• Subways and buses are the lifeblood of dense cities like New York.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 14 Dec. 2020
• But our team in Glendale is the lifeblood of the company.
  — Sam Dean, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2021
• Your teams—not your customers—are the lifeblood of your business.
  — Joe Altieri, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• But for the downriver nations, the Mekong is a lifeblood.
  — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2019
• Along the way, Twitch has mostly maintained the good will of the streamers who are its lifeblood.
  — Kellen Browning, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2022
• The pandemic sapped the lifeblood — taproom sales — from many operations, forcing them to lean more heavily on to-go vessels such as cans and bottles.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 14 Mar. 2025
• In December 2022, months after the move against the central bank, the United States and its allies made their first serious attempt to target the lifeblood of Russia’s economy: oil sales.
  — Edward Fishman, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2025