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
  • One more football lifer fighting for his dream.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 10 May 2026
  • The horse world has a lot of lifers who are dedicated to the sport.
    — Nora Princiotti, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2018
  • 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
  • This is for all the indie film lifers who are holding on and fighting the good fight.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The Italian chef has already won over the lifers.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Unlike pro-lifers, its acolytes have no desire to protect life for its own sake.
    — Elliot Kaufman, National Review, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The child lifers were also reaching out beyond the prison walls.
    — Issie Lapowsky Abdul Kircher, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Bolles, of course, has been a lifer since the doldrums of 2017.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 18 June 2025
  • 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
  • Stealth wealth, drives a Tesla, a bitcoin lifer.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Simmons knew him as a lifer who did laundry in exchange for goods from the canteen.
    — CBS News, 27 June 2017
  • That’s how a baseball lifer ends up without baseball.
    — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • 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
  • Cignetti, the 64-year-old coaching lifer, started it.
    — Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • So far, the board has approved about 80 percent of lifers who’ve sought parole.
    — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The head coach is a football lifer still being asked to justify his spot on the sideline.
    — John Romano, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Gardenhire is a smart and clever baseball lifer wise to the ways of human nature.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 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
  • But fans will have to jump through a few spaghetti hoops for the privilege of being a pasta-pass lifer.
    — Kate Bowers, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The players get to play and Whittingham, a football lifer, gets to coach.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Nov. 2020
  • These are the relentless lifers who have it in their blood—the ones who can’t NOT do it.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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