survive

Example Sentences

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Some Americans, including Lucy’s father Hank, survived by moving into a network of underground bunkers called Vaults, while others were left to fend for themselves in the Wasteland.

From Los Angeles Times

"We think about surviving that immediate moment and then you don't think about what happens after this," Dr Cooper says.

From BBC

The site of Starfleet Academy, which is being reopened after more than a century, is San Francisco, which has apparently survived climate change as have Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge.

From The Wall Street Journal

He might have survived huge demonstrations had not the armed forces decided that to save their own position he had to go.

From BBC

Cherry's husband Clint Harrison told the court on Monday that his wife's death had left him without a future to look forward to and he only had "an empty present to survive".

From BBC