LIVE in a Sentence

Learn LIVE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for LIVE, such as:
1. To live is to function.
2. He may live twenty years longer.
3. Man does not live by bread alone.
4. I shall now live solely for my family.
5. I live all alone but I never feel lonely.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of LIVE
live
 v.  have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
 v.  have life, be alive
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You must create a female for me with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  "You live in West Egg," she remarked contemptuously.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  "You ought to live in California--" began Miss Baker but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
6  Enough, it is my purpose to live and die unknown.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
7  A great deal too handsome, in my opinion, for any place THEY can ever afford to live in.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
8  We shall live within a few miles of each other, and shall meet every day of our lives.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
9  He may live twenty years longer.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
10  In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out again with a cry of pain.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
11  I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  I shall now live solely for my family.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46
13  If we all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIV
14  I lived rough, that you should live smooth; I worked hard, that you should be above work.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
15  It was obviously made with the assurance that he could not live so long, and was refused.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It is no longer desirable for adult children to live with their parents.
2  After a whirlwind courtship, they married and went to live in Bath.
3  To live is to function.
4  Tell not all you know nor judge of all you see if you would live in peace.
5  I believe people should live in houses that allow them to retreat from the harsh realities of life.
6  To live long is almost everyone's wish, but to live well is the ambitiion of a few.
7  Man does not live by bread alone.
8  I live all alone but I never feel lonely.
9  A large proportion of old people live alone.
10  Mother was becoming too frail to live alone.
11  He hopes to live in although his home is not far from the college.
12  I was born anAmerican; I live an American; I shall die an American.
13  The Yanomami people live in the South American jungle.
14  I can live for two months on a good compliment.
15  The majority of students find it quite hard to live on the amount of money they get.