Sentence examples for Survive from inspiring English sources
The phrase "Survive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in various contexts, typically to refer to continuing to live or exist, especially in difficult conditions. Example: "In order to survive the harsh winter, the animals had to find shelter and food."
verb
Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
"Even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head.
We are now consulting regarding potential legal action and hoping against hope that the 12 libraries being thrown over to the community with the threat of volunteer-or-lose-it, will survive long enough for the future council members to realise their costly error and resume running this vital social and educational service.
The only way to survive was to convince the brain to be satisfied with the tiny bit of air it got The plane was in the air.
Yet the coalition endured the past year, and is most likely to survive 2013 as well, if only because its very unpopularity gives the Tories and the Lib Dems a mutual interest in avoiding an early election.
Musicians need to survive, and there's precious little money around.
MAD playing in the minds of political strategists on either side of the border might just ensure that the two fragile coalitions in Dublin and Belfast survive for longer than many expected.
He was not disappointed: "You have to go through that to be effective as a manager (you cannot reasonably ask anyone to do something you would not)." But he left when he was also placed on crew wages, "which was not enough for me to survive on at the time – which is why I left.
Can it survive beyond glorious declarations or official pronouncements?
Johan does, of course, survive, having desperately tried to prevent the deaths he knew would come.
Most survive on a day-to-day basis.
If left unprotected, they often survive, but emerge late and fail to flower properly.
