Sentence examples for lived for nothing from inspiring English sources

When she pleads with Ronnie "don't let me finish this life thinking I lived for nothing", I was wrestling with lump in my throat of golf ball proportion.

At the end of the song he sings: "If I have understood correctly without the pleasures and pains of love, frankly we have lived for nothing".

You ruin lives for nothing.

Then his protagonist's tone turns: "You're living for nothing now," he whispers.

Living a life of genteel poverty in Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, she lives for nothing more than an appalling gameshow-cum-QVC-infomercial hosted by the oily Tappy Tibbons (Christopher McDonald, who since Quiz Show has cornered the market in this sort of role).

Their military careers make us feel we do not live for nothing, we have a continuing generation".

There are numerous cases of athletes losing control of their lives after retiring because sport was all they lived for, and nothing in normal life could ever replace that void.

There are numerous cases of athletes losing control of their lives after retiring because the sport was all they lived for, and nothing in normal life could ever replace that void.

It gets one in the recently bereaved Alvin Sputnik who, after the death of his beloved wife from a bad cough, feels that he has nothing left to live for, and nothing left to lose.

-CYRIL CONNELLY We lived for days on nothing but food and water.

As the Depression deepened, they lived, for a while, on nothing but apples.