Example sentences for: survives

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

  • Farming implements like plow and hayrake have kept their old horse-drawn names, and so have most utility vehicles, like fire engine, Black Maria, paddy wagon, ambulance , and delivery van --the last clipped from caravan living wagon, which survives in full in England to mean a camping trailer.

  • Under either system, the marriage survives as long as it's possible to keep both partners happier together than they would be apart.

  • The term Indo-European cropped up first at the beginning of the 19th century; as much of the work was being done in Germany, it is not surprising that the term preferred there was Indo-Germanic , actually a translation of indogermanisch (with a small i because it is an adjective), which arose in the late 1820s; the latter survives in the literature, largely replaced by the former, especially since the discovery that Celtic is a member of the family.

  • Lydian Magnesia survives as the city of Manisa, in what is now Turkey.

  • A new morpheme survives the novelty of its first innovation (like telethon for - athon ) because it turns out to be useful, almost as if by accident, and brings something new into the idiom.


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