Examples of “survive” in a Sentence

verb To stay alive, especially after facing danger, illness, or hardship.

• Only a handful of passengers survived the shipwreck.
• She survived two rounds of chemotherapy.
• Somehow the kitten survived a cold night outside in the rain.

verb To continue to exist, especially after something might have destroyed it.

• Very few handwritten letters from that era have survived.
• The old oak tree survived the storm that flattened the rest of the wood.
• Traditions like this one have survived for centuries in the village.

verb To live longer than someone else; to outlive them.

• He was survived by his wife and three children.
• She survived her husband by many years and lived alone in the cottage.
• Most parents hope their children will survive them.