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
• Players who aren't the stars but are still the lifeblood of the sport.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• As the name suggests, coal was once the lifeblood of Coalville.
  — David Condos, NPR, 19 May 2026
• Hearn said the return of fans was vital to the lifeblood of the sport.
  — John Whisler, ExpressNews.com, 3 Dec. 2020
• Coffee was his lifeblood through years in the service and then his job.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2021
• Your teams—not your customers—are the lifeblood of your business.
  — Joe Altieri, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• Lights strung along the promenade form shapes of the town's lifeblood.
  — Jessica Meyers, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• None of us can have meetings at the moment, and that’s our lifeblood.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Imagine your heart has one artery taking that lifeblood to the rest of your body.
  — Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
• Yes-and-no questions like this are in some ways the lifeblood of Kalshi.
  — Declan Harty, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2021
• For hundreds of years, water was the life and lifeblood of a city on the make.
  — Alaina Harkness, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2026
• Just as sap is the lifeblood of the maple tree, maple syrup is the lifeblood of Canada.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 9 Oct. 2024
• Those conversations have long been part of the lifeblood of the game.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• With that comes a gamble on tourism, the lifeblood of the economy.
  — Paul Tugwell, Bloomberg.com, 14 June 2020
• India’s rivers have always served as a lifeblood for the country.
  — Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
• Diesel is the lifeblood of the food supply chain, fueling trucks and ships.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 June 2026
• Diesel is the lifeblood of the food supply chain, fueling trucks and ships.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 May 2026
• Covid meant that competition—the lifeblood of the sport—was put on hold.
  — Martina Navratilova, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2022
• Soon the dairy lost its contract with the Springfield schools – its lifeblood.
  — oregonlive, 21 Aug. 2022
• Will Venice one day have to cut itself off from the waters that are its lifeblood?
  — Emma Bubola Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• Sponsorship money is the lifeblood of teams and races.
  — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• Subways and buses are the lifeblood of dense cities like New York.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 14 Dec. 2020
• But taxing the lifeblood of the community isn’t the way to go about it.
  — Wendy Lee, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2018
• Now is not the time to withhold the lifeblood that young people can bring to the economy.
  — Dan Rosensweig, Fortune, 2 June 2021
• Christians are the lifeblood of The Homeland.
  — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
• Clients are key Clients are the lifeblood of the business –– without clients, the dream can’t live.
  — Micah Iverson, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2018