Drowning person's need

Usage examples of lifeline.

It took some time to do this, as there was 370 acres of it, its perimeter enclosed by a wire-cable lifeline and footrope with running lights at five-meter intervals.

Only a few resource-exploitation centers belonging to megacorporations remained in the interior, and even their lifelines were tenuous.

Yuma reached for the saltshaker and then just held it as if it were a lifeline.

Behind him, the lifeline tied him to Thoughtworld like an umbilical cord.

I know the Spiders promise it, but even if they do go back and cut another Doubleganger from my lifeline, is he me?

It's sweet to wield the Atropos and cut a Zombie or Unborn out of his lifeline and look the Doubleganger in the face and see the Resurrection-glow in it and Recruit a brother, welcome a newborn fellow Demon into our ranks and decide whether he'll best fit as Soldier, Entertainer, or what.

Though mindful of the dictates of security, NSA knows too that security can have an adverse effect on recruitmentthe lifeline of any institution.

Orlando wasn't fooled or confused for a moment--it was an auditory hallucination, a product of stress--but he grabbed the words like a lifeline.

Lifeline strengthened by a Big Change after his first death and at latest report Commandant of Toronto, where he maintains extensive baby farms to provide him with breakfast meat, if you believe the handbills of the _voyageurs_ underground.

Small supply vessels come and go from Belle Terre on almost a daily basis and Challenger can't protect that lifeline alone, even if our systems were all working right.

Ray, the linguist, listened to and memorized words like spinnaker, mast, bow, stern, aft, tiller, halyard winches, masthead fittings, shrouds, lifelines, stanchions, sheet winch, bow pulpit, coamings, transom, clew outhaul, genoa sheets, mainsail, jib, jibstays, jib sheets, cam cleats and boom vangs.

The task took half an hour, twenty minutes to climb the mast, edge out to the yardarm tip, fit the bosun's chair and lifeline, and ten minutes for the actual repair.

Deprived of its lifelines from the home world, the Moon was full: a stagnant, closed economy.

The Lord Jesus help me, that was the time I sent him for'ard and deliberately swerved into the wind without warning, him without a lifeline, to murder him, but the Ingeles didn't go overboard like anyone else would've done.

This is the way Rosa had changed Antonio: In severing mokoi-his lifeline to Heitor-she had shattered the hermetic seal within which the twins had existed.