Example sentences for: survives

How can you use “survives” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Built in the 16th century, the chapel, taken from the ruins around it and reassembled in the 19th century, is all that survives of the original basilica.

  • Their tough-minded pragmatism survives today not only in Tokyo but also in the dynamic industrial zone that has burgeoned around it in such towns as Kawasaki and Yokohama.

  • In England the office survives figuratively on trains, where the guard corresponds to the American conductor or trainman .

  • We want to ensure that the Bureau's shift to a preventive counterterrorism posture is more fully institutionalized so that it survives beyond Director Mueller's tenure.

  • If a doctor tells a patient he has six weeks to live and the patient survives for many years, it's humiliating for the doctor.


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