Example sentences for: survives

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

  • A better world order survives, symbolised by those Asian, African and Chinese faces looking after Europeans in the UN camps."

  • It is important to remember, however, that what survives of this generation's slang may bacome the next generation's standard English.

  • Some blame a shaky translation from the original Polish; others say the author's use of so many varying literary devices and styles squelches the heart of the novel: "Only a spark of life survives its mannerisms" (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). (Read the first chapter here.)

  • 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.

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


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