Sentence examples for were surviving from inspiring English sources
verb
Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
Six months in, they were surviving on lentils every night.
Frogs inoculated earlier in the summer were surviving.
Civilians were surviving on three litres of water a day in Iraq's searing summer heat.
I do think that God was with us, and we were surviving".
Millions more were surviving only because of expanded unemployment insurance and other assistance.
As you can imagine, we were surviving on minimal and basic rations, and quite hungry by meal times.
Many Europeans were surviving on less than 1,000 calories per day; in the Netherlands they were eating tulip bulbs.
Crammed into a two-bed flat, they were surviving on food scraps, and were threatened with violence if they complained.
The heirs of Lenin's embalmers explained that they were surviving by performing similar services for Russian mafiosi.
The men were surviving in two huts on the icepack drifting south with just five days' food left.
