from life

idiom

of a painting, drawing, etc.

: from looking at an actual person, object, etc.

drawings done from life rather than from photographs

Examples of from life in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web California Suspect in clubbing of two women near Venice canals arrested in San Diego April 12, 2024 Alden was declared brain-dead May 20 and removed from life support four days later, after her organs were donated, according to a GoFundMe page set up for her memorial. —

Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024 Words like these imply that older people should disengage from life and disconnect from the world or retire to the rocking chair on the porch. —

Nancy Kusmaul, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2024 Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are getting back to work after each having a hiatus from life on the road. —

Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 16 May 2024 Layer cakes move around this way, from life to life. —

Lisa Donovan, New York Times, 15 May 2024 Yaya Bey – Ten Fold Big Dada Personal success and fulfillment are only reprieves from life’s heaviness. —

Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 10 May 2024 At Matthew Marks, a violet-colored polyester sculpture by the German sculptor Katharina Fritsch, as realistic as if cast from life, of a hand lying prone, half open, palm upward. —

Holland Cotter, New York Times, 2 May 2024 The infant's family had been weighing whether to remove him from life support, but the child died of a severe brain injury. —

USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024 There’s no intimate exchange about what the characters want from life or America, just an exhibition of superficial differences — racial identity above all else, with economic class as the common denominator, the only other thing that matters. —

Armond White, National Review, 10 Apr. 2024

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