alive to
Example Sentences
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"While Al Fayed is no longer alive to face prosecution, we have always been determined to bring anyone who is suspected to have played a part in his offending to justice," Craggs added.
From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026
"I've always avoided meeting the person if they are alive, to begin with at least," he said.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026
“I want everyone alive to have free, clean water, food, healthcare, education, shelter/housing, and have more time to pursue passions and hobbies. Is that really so radical??”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025
Her fiction, so alive to sensory experience and the interior struggles of the mind and heart, helped extend the literary tradition of Virginia Woolf, a modernist whom Welty deeply admired.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
“You were the reason I was alive to do it.”
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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