alive
Example Sentences
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Nik Cohn’s “Corner Boy: Loiterings New and Old” is alive with mystery, intrigue and revelation.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
"I've just never done this with an author who's still alive or one with whom I already have a very intensely productive working relationship," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
“They studied Hitler being alive and ‘are birds real?’ — some of the classic ones that you hear about,” Maye explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
She remained alive after two doses of the lethal sedative pentobarbital, which may have entered her arm tissue instead of her bloodstream.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
It had been brittle and barely alive to begin with, like the fallen leaves of Deadwood.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
