joy of living

collocation in English

meaningsofjoyandliving

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joy
noun
uk
/dʒɔɪ/us
/dʒɔɪ/
great ...
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living
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪv.ɪŋ/us
/ˈlɪv.ɪŋ/
alive ...
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(Definition ofjoyandlivingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofjoy of living

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We are losing thisjoyofliving.
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All his friends, colleagues and students will remember his charisma, his straightforward, open and supportive character, his humour, and hisjoyoflivingand love of science.
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Thejoyoflivingis being ruined by the intensification of the growth of production.
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We must instil in the old people thejoyofliving.
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It is thejoyoflivingand the radiance of the human being which matters.
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His music expresses thejoyofliving.
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We have a lot still to give to those who have lost some of the faculties we enjoy and some of thejoyofliving.
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And the painting is finished; a happy painting expressing thejoyofliving.
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Love, thejoyofliving, and nature are the primary subjects of his poems.
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Sports activities give the individual thejoyoflivingand the will to struggle.
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Many of them promote a zest for life among their pupils and, because of them, many children in junior and primary schools have experienced thejoyofliving.
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I believe that no sum of money, however big, can compensate them for a disability which can, after all, deprive them of the veryjoyofliving.
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This place brings together men and women in search of that most elusive quality in this modern, brittle, and materialistic age, happiness and thejoyofliving.
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When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for thejoyofliving.
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As he painted only visible things, very precisely, he preserved the spirit of optimism and thejoyofliving.
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Her only works that have come down to us are philosophical and love quatrains (rubaiyat), glorifying thejoyoflivingand the fullness of love.
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Thou art giving and forgiving, ever blessing, ever blest, well-spring of thejoyofliving, ocean-depth of happy rest!
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The film made an effort to peel away the mask and expose the struggles, sacrifices andjoyoflivinglife as a ground breaking female performer.
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But just as truthfully thejoyofliving, happiness and excitement of childhood is shown as the children fight and clown their way through the summer.
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After you finish reading this novel about the ugliness of (literary) life..., you feel, paradoxically, thejoyofliving, of communicating, of partaking in the captivating spectacle of being.
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