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Example sentences for "survives"

Lexicographically close words:
surveys; survival; survivals; survive; survived; surviving; survivor; survivors; survivorship; sus
  1. To tell the bare truth, what survives of these debates is incomparably tedious and confused.

  2. The soul survives its adventures," says Chesterton with a splendid sense of justice.

  3. Perhaps Bernard Shaw was right when he said that "the famous Constitution survives only because whenever any corner of it gets into the way of the accumulating dollar it is pettishly knocked off and thrown away.

  4. And my soul (the soul survives the body) listened to all these sounds from the city left behind.

  5. After that who can deny that self-esteem survives after death?

  6. If the fish survives the perils of its first ascent and spawning season and as a kelt or spawned fish gets down to the sea again, it comes up a second time as a salmon of weight varying from 8 lb upwards.

  7. Especially is this the case with the list of trout-flies, a meagre twelve, which survives in many fishing books until well into the 18th century.

  8. To this day his name survives as the prototype of a criminal leader, directing the wide operations of a well organised gang of depredators that swept all before them.

  9. There survives a sense of suffocation in these buildings," writes Philarete Chasles.

  10. It depends on various conditions that revive the essential part and drop the minor details, and this "essential" which survives dissociation depends on subjective causes, the principal ones of which are at first practical, utilitarian reasons.

  11. This tendency toward variation is fundamental or superficial: As fundamental, it corresponds to genius, and survives through processes analogous to natural selection, i.

  12. As superficial, it corresponds to talent, survives and prospers chiefly through the help of circumstances and environment.

  13. This name still survives in a public-house at the north corner of what is now Church Street.

  14. The name survives in Westbourne Park and Westbourne Street.

  15. The young cuckoo never survives an attempt to detain him.

  16. The belief survives in the conjurer's wand, which, as we all know, does marvels when waved to the sound of 'Hey presto!

  17. The English Liturgy survives to tell us what Cranmer was.

  18. In connection with the visits of the Spaniards Velasquez and Gomez, and their meetings with the Gaspesian Indians, a fanciful tradition survives in relation to the origin of the word 'Canada.

  19. In this part also there survives a distinct tradition of the Norse discovery of America.

  20. For instance, there is Baynard's Castle, the name of which still survives in that of Baynard's Castle Ward, and in that of a wharf which is still called by the name of the old palace.

  21. And here a venerable name survives telling what once stood on the site; here a dingy little church-yard marks the former position of a church as ancient as any in the City.

  22. As long as the duel survives the movement is incomplete.

  23. But the conversation of many of the characters is in the plebeius sermo, the actual speech of the lower orders, of which so little survives in literature.

  24. Of their numerous productions enough survives to indicate that a certain technical skill was not wholly lost.

  25. One other work of extreme and unique interest survives from the reign of Nero, the fragments of a novel by Petronius Arbiter, one of the Emperor's intimate circle in the excesses of his later years.

  26. The only other poet who survives from the reign of Tiberius is in a very different position, being so well known and so slight in literary quality as to make any quotations superfluous.

  27. Of the many poets who attempted it, nothing survives beyond a string of names.

  28. McGlynn and his second wife who survives him, was Miss Margaret M.

  29. Mrs. Cameron survives with one son, Dakers Cameron, of Montreal.

  30. Mrs. Reford survives him, as do five of his children, they being: Robert Wilson Reford, president of the Robert Reford Co.

  31. Mr. McArthur married in England, in 1869, Miss Annie Williamson, who survives him and resides in Montreal.

  32. In 1861 Mr. Villeneuve married Miss Susan Ann Walker, a daughter of Captain James Walker, of Sorel, Quebec, who survives together with their four children.

  33. One expedition made its way into the land of Punt, to the north of Abyssinia, and brought back a Danga dwarf, whose tribal name still survives under the form of Dongo.

  34. The word still survives in modern Arabic.

  35. In the less highly organized fishes this survives in many cases as an open cleft.

  36. No more senseless custom survives in our age than the administration of the oath.

  37. If the state survives it is plain to us that the church must perish, and the church can only flourish on the ruins of free institutions.

  38. The term in its early use of "fine" or "splendid" survives in American slang.

  39. Vespasian made it a colony and called it Flavia: the old name, however, persisted, and still survives as Kaisarieh.

  40. Later it is used for any male attendant, and thus survives in the name for several officials in the royal household, such as the grooms-in-waiting, and the grooms of the great chamber.

  41. Hand-grenades were used in war in the 16th century, but the word "grenade" was also from the first used to imply an explosive shell fired from a gun; this survives to the present day in the German Granate.

  42. The word survives in the German Brautigam.

  43. The next appendage to the old church, in point of importance, was the Bishop's or London House, the name of which survives in that of London House Yard.

  44. This free use of cider, with accompanying intemperance, survives in only two houses on Quaker Hill.

  45. The chari-vari survives among the better class of working people, a strange, noisy outbreak for a Quaker community, with which a newly married pair are usually serenaded.

  46. This peculiar reckoning survives in the selling of cheese 120 lbs.

  47. Unal was a Danish chief, whose name survives as a surname Neal, Niel, and O'Neil.

  48. This practice survives in some adults, much to the disgust of their friends.

  49. Yet the town itself possessed at an early period a separate parish church of Allhallows, a memory of which survives in 'Allhallowgate.

  50. The season is regarded as a holiday, and another relic of the nativity festival survives in the fair held on the Thursday after August 2nd.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "survives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.