Sentence examples for but lived for from inspiring English sources

She and her husband are also from Giannitsa but lived for a long time in Jersey City, where she worked in a factory making fake fur coats.

He was born in Kandahar, he said, but lived for a while near Quetta, one of the Pakistani cities that absorbed millions of refugees during the Afghan wars.

He and his four brothers went to public school in Sarcelles but lived for years at a dormitory-like foster home.

Frances gave birth to two daughters, in 1955 and 1957; a son, John, was born in 1960, but lived for only 10 hours.

She fought a series of nagging health problems, but lived for her foreign assignments, spending her vacations freelancing in Cambodia and South Africa.

He returned to London two years later, but lived for only another three years – though at 82 he hardly died young.

You must not live for what was, but live for what can be.

Believing in yesterday is fine, but living for the moment and embracing the future is where it's at.

I know you are frightened and tired and it doesn't feel worth it but live for a happy moment.

Born in South Africa but living for the last 30 years in Amsterdam, Marlene Dumas is a force to be reckoned with, both as an artist and as a person.

Intermediate cells divide, often at relatively high rates, but live for relatively short periods of time.