SURVIVAL in a Sentence

Learn SURVIVAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
137 example sentences for SURVIVAL, such as:
1. Animals have a natural instinct for survival.
2. You are witnesses that I have survived my wife.
3. Exporting is necessary for our economic survival.
4. The letter's survival is something of a minor miracle.
5. Illegal hunting is threatening the survival of the species.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SURVIVAL
survival
 n.  a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
 n.  something that survives
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  This unweeting manner of performance is the true ring by which, in this refurbishing age, a fossilized survival may be known from a spurious reproduction.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
2  Even in our own time certain tendencies and desires, once necessary to survival, are a constant source of failure.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  And the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
4  The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
5  In this fashionable whim could be discerned a survival of the habits of the times of Alexander.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
6  Then Scarlett saw with relief the faint rise and fall of her shallow breathing and knew that Melanie had survived the night.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  The two-story red-brick city hall had survived the burning of the city.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
9  Her rosy blondness had survived some forty years of futile activity without showing much trace of ill-usage except in a diminished play of feature.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
10  I survived myself; my death and burial were locked up in my chest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
11  They seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment that had survived nearly four years of cruising.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. The Albatross.
12  You are witnesses that I have survived my wife.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
13  It stated that he had just shot his wife; that any will she might secretly have made would be invalid, as he survived her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
14  His feet were cold and dead, but his head survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
15  Of the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all the officers, except five, were either dead or captured.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
Example Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1  Life is a chain of moments of enjoyment; not only about survival.
2  The arrival of this South American predator threatened the survival of native species.
3  The campaign will hopefully ensure the survival of the tiger.
4  Nowadays a premature baby has a very good chance of survival.
5  The doctor told my wife I had a fifty - fifty chance of survival.
6  Commercial exploitation of resources threatens our survival.
7  The man's survival was surprising, as the doctors thought he would die.
8  The study showed improved survival of patients using the drug.
9  Animals have a natural instinct for survival.
10  Exporting is necessary for our economic survival.
11  The letter's survival is something of a minor miracle.
12  Illegal hunting is threatening the survival of the species.
13  Continued trade in these products is a threat to the survival of the species.
14  Yesterday's meeting was intended to plot a survival strategy for the party.
15  The main threat to the survival of these creatures comes from their loss of habitat.