Swallowing hard a bunch of times, I looked up and saw that everyone around me was still engaged in a life-or-death battle.
She has super-strength and views life-or-death battle as flirting.
This is a life-or-death battle!
This was the first real life-or-death battle he and Cheeky had fought as a team; he hoped it would also be the first of many victories.
His stories often pit male against female in an intense life-or-death battle.
It sure beats frostbite, high explosives, and underwater life-or-death battles with psychopaths.
And his life-or-death battle with the blue python would end, one way or the other, within minutes.
Both were bleeding from a dozen wounds, eyes locked, muscles straining in a life-or-death battle that would decide the fate of a civilization.
But Sten was riding the top of a heavy tank, in life-or-death battle on a nameless world somewhere.
Although Phaethon and his enemies command unthinkably potent weapons, the real life-or-death battles are fought with words.