Sentence examples for would not live long from inspiring English sources
The zebra, Van kept saying, would not live long.
He realized that he would not live long enough to do even a fraction of them.
He said he was originally told he would not live long.
Knowing he would not live long, he did not try to make peace with the world.
The cartoon villain interjects, "He would not live long, I think".
He contracted tuberculosis while in custody, and friends obtained his release on the basis that he would not live long.
"She asked for a divorce when she knew she wouldn't live long".
Even then, she went on buying things on time, making down payments, anxiety from their poorer days leading her to believe that she wouldn't live long enough to pay off her debts, even with her Coca-Cola money.
From there the film follows them to Prague, where Mr. Wiener visits the former office of the Nazi collaborator who gave him an exit visa but contemptuously predicted he wouldn't live long enough to wear out one pair of shoes.
Illustrating his point, he launched again into "No Hook": " 'Poor me, Dad was gone, finally got my Dad back, liver bad, he wouldn't live long, it snatched my Dad back.' " He added that the song "takes you through this journey — his journey, my journey — so many people's journey that come from the areas that we come from".
When his eighty-year-old son died, the father mourned : " I always told him he wouldn't live long, poor boy.
