Lifeline

Once used mostly for corporate meetings, video conferences have suddenly become the lifeline connecting isolated friends, co-workers, and family members.

This road is the lifeline that links these villages to the rest of the world.

This is an economic lifeline for Algeria.

Wild tigers have been offered a lifeline by countries where they still roam.

Trusting my instincts felt like a lifeline when I hesitated.

The girls, of course, were my lifeline during this time.

Slowly I began to fill up some of the emptiness inside—writing had become my lifeline.

The Government has thrown a lifeline to Alstom's Derby Works, with an offer of an order for ten Class 345 nine-car electric multiple units (EMUs) for the Elizabeth line - but only if the 'price is right'.

Planners did not see the access routes as west Berlin's sole lifeline, which now seems instinctive to us.

It is no real surprise that half the UK's stations and 5,000 miles of route were recommended to close. Nevertheless, some great mistakes were made in Marples' devil-may-care purge that left commuters stranded and seaside resorts without a lifeline.