How to Use lifer in a Sentence

lifer

noun

• He was a lifer at the factory.
• And the lifers love to talk about how much the city has grown.
  — Dominic Pino, National Review, 3 Feb. 2024
• Bolles, of course, has been a lifer since the doldrums of 2017.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 18 June 2025
• The three juvenile lifers in the ACLU suit are not the 2019 parolees.
  — Hannah Gaskill, baltimoresun.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• Bring him back, keep him next to the 25-year-old Tatum, and build around a core that has the chance to be Celtic lifers.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
• In many ways, Caron has been a Heat lifer even while spending the past 16 years away from the Heat.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2020
• The horse world has a lot of lifers who are dedicated to the sport.
  — Nora Princiotti, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
• The Kiffins aren’t the only football lifers on FAU’s staff.
  — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• Leonard was in position to be the next great Spurs lifer.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
• Below, Taylor Swift’s best and worst songs of all time, told through the lens of a Swiftie lifer.
  — Jill Gutowitz, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2020
• One of head coach Sean Payton’s lifers won’t be back with the Broncos in 2025.
  — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2025
• Laufman, who lives just up the road in Coconut Creek, is a baseball lifer who plays for the love of the game.
  — Emmett Hall, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• Goodrum, now 26, is bound to be a baseball lifer because of that approach to the game.
  — George Stoia, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2018
• Frazier, 33, is a baseball lifer, but do not ask him how to break in a mitt.
  — Kevin Armstrong, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• This is for all the indie film lifers who are holding on and fighting the good fight.
  — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 Feb. 2025
• McCullough, a Plano lifer, will now watch Plano East from the stands.
  — Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2022
• The 2014 inductee to the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame has been a broadcast lifer.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Aug. 2022
• As David prepares for 2025, the Bucs lifer has a chance to make more team history.
  — Jeff Howe, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
• In any event, auction house lifers told me, the secondary art market is a race to the bottom.
  — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2024
• The child lifers were also reaching out beyond the prison walls.
  — Issie Lapowsky Abdul Kircher, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• These low-lifers are old enough to know right from wrong and good citizens' hands should not be tied.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Sep. 2017
• As in the basketball lifer who has roamed the country and the globe for more than a decade seeking talent.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2025
• The players get to play and Whittingham, a football lifer, gets to coach.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Nov. 2020
• So what to do with the fact that EXO may or may not look to the Southern gentleman and fried chicken lifer as a style muse?
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 26 Feb. 2018
• That’s the kind of value that makes buyers into lifers.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• So far, the board has approved about 80 percent of lifers who’ve sought parole.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• That doesn’t mean the 36-year-old Wild lifer has taken to yelling and screaming in the locker room.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 17 Apr. 2026
• Baseball lifer Phil Garner passed away over the weekend at 76 years old.
  — Levi Weaver, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
• As a lifer, Braddy will no longer get his own cell and will have to be around other inmates.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2026
• Underwood is a coaching lifer, the kind that started barely in view of the bottom rung of the ladder.
  — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 1 Apr. 2026