SURVIVE in a Sentence

Learn SURVIVE 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.
137 example sentences for SURVIVE, such as:
1. Mina if she survive is my sole heir.
2. You need to be tough to survive in the jungle.
3. I've had a tough few months, but I'll survive.
4. It astonished her that he was able to survive.
5. We cannot survive for long without food and drink.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SURVIVE
survive
 v.  continue to live through hardship or adversity
 v.  support oneself
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  Rather, it was Gerald's compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that little people must be hardy to survive among large ones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  A touch, and Starbuck may survive to hug his wife and child again.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
3  The workers were simply the citizens of industry, and the Socialist movement was the expression of their will to survive.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 30
4  Good-bye, dear Arthur, if I should not survive this night.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  Mina if she survive is my sole heir.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Because," said Lord Henry, passing beneath his nostrils the gilt trellis of an open vinaigrette box, "one can survive everything nowadays except that.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
7  For the dead are past thinking of revenge; and those who survive, for the most part leave such thoughts to the dead.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
8  These in fact resolve themselves into one, namely, that some should survive who will avenge the death of the murdered prince.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
9  In answer to this, it has been claimed that the Negro can survive only through submission.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
10  If I were to see my father in one of these dreadful seizures I am convinced that I should never survive it.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
11  In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VIII
12  That is to say, I will not conceal from you the fact that, out of a hundred souls registered at the last revision, only fifty survive, so terrible have been the ravages of cholera.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
13  When he had become a little quieter, he explained to Rostov that he was living with his mother, who, if she saw him dying, would not survive it.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V
14  With twenty sail did I climb the Phrygian sea; oracular tokens led me on; my goddess mother pointed the way; scarce seven survive the shattering of wave and wind.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
15  The boy prince, my chiefest care, makes ready at his dear father's summons to go to the Sidonian city, carrying gifts that survive the sea and the flames of Troy.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1  It astonished her that he was able to survive.
2  Who has the material to survive, people have a dream only talk about life.
3  I've had a tough few months, but I'll survive.
4  You need to be tough to survive in the jungle.
5  Whether the business will survive another ten years is pure conjecture.
6  In that case, we must stay to-gether or none of us will survive.
7  You want freedom, I give you freedom;you want to survive, I die for you.
8  The only way to survive was to enjoy the good moments and not dwell too much on the bad.
9  Those organisms that are that are most suited to the environment will be those that will survive.
10  The will to survive is extraordinary and at times overwhelming, capable of fashioning some form of normality even out of the darkest hour.
11  Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole life, if you survive them.
12  We cannot survive for long without food and drink.
13  Natural selection ensures only the fittest survive to pass their genes on to the next generation.
14  A generation ago, it was thought that babies born this small could not survive.
15  If the industry doesn't modernize it will not survive.