Example sentences for: survivor

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

  • 43 Social Security is financed mainly on a pay-as-you-go basis, which means that payroll taxes of current workers are used to pay retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for current beneficiaries.

  • Of all these people, Keyes is the only survivor who demands to be taken seriously.

  • His wife, Judy, and her father, Howard, are members of the intelligentsia in an unnamed country in the near future, and the story--told by the three characters seated at a table in direct address to the camera--involves the gradual destruction of their lives by an oppressive regime, and the moral disintegration of Jack, the eponymous survivor.

  • Trevor Rees-Jones, the bodyguard who is the only survivor of the car crash that killed Princess Diana, reportedly has been recovering his memory of the fateful night.

  • One of the most interesting sites in the New Territories is Tai Fu Tai, another rare survivor, this one a mansion that belonged to a Confucian high official.


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