Sentence examples for life hinges from inspiring English sources

The quality of neighborly life hinges not on abstractions but on actions.

Soon before Hannah's mysterious demise, she tells Blue, "Life hinges on a couple of seconds you never see coming".

Since an organ recipient's life hinges on a donor's death, talking about organ donation can be uncomfortable.

It's a story about friendships and their absence, and about the tiny moments on which a life hinges.

Gorge's whole life hinges on that moment; and from then we watch his crippling rise to the top of the entrepreneurial heap.

All of this promises a story more rooted in time and place than most of Auster's existential yarns, but the Hospital for Broken Things that one character opens in Park Slope would fit comfortably into any of the author's previous works, as would shopworn observations like "The entire story of his life hinges on what happened that day".

Because my whole life hinged on this.

"Our economy and quality of life hinge greatly on our ability to move freely throughout the city," he said.

Their life hinged on seals, with every scrap of meat, blubber or bone being used one way or another.

I forgot about Michael and was delivered back to something crude and familiar, a time when my life hinged on maintaining an animal stillness.

He may need to remodel himself on the lines of a Labour chancellor of whom it has been said: "His reputation, in death as in life, hinged on one inescapable word, austerity".