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lifeline

noun as in help

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These images, videos and messages became a lifeline between two worlds and a stark record of the distance between them.

They severed the last railroad lifeline into Atlanta, making the Citadel of the Confederacy as it was touted no longer tenable.

The third and final “lifeline” asked whether von Trier related to his female protagonists as well as his male ones.

The second “lifeline” was what von Trier had learned about female sexuality by making Nymphomaniac.

To step inside Madison Square Garden was to grab hold of a lifeline to an alternate world of harmonic order and balance.

Ten months of siege followed as Grant methodically cut the Confederate 39 lifeline.

Even so, he didn't unshackle his inward-reeling lifeline till he was inside the chamber.

Occasionally a lifeline was rigged along the well deck to the poop quarters, a by no means unnecessary precaution.

A cheer burst from the throats of the Boy Scouts as they tailed on the lifeline, and walked backward from the tree with it.

Even these hardy men of the wild dared not venture beyond their door without the lifeline which was always kept handy.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to lifeline, such as: aid, line, and salvation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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