Abner made Ish-bosheth, the only surviving son of Saul, king over Israel, "and he reigned two years.
After some further fighting, Judas was slain, and Simon, the only surviving brother, succeeded him, and Jerusalem was practically independent.
Aquifolium is the sole surviving species, the genus was richly represented during the Miocene period by forms at first South American and Asiatic, and later North American in type (Schimper, Paleont.
Ramsay died without survivingissue in February 1626, when his titles became extinct.
The memory of Judge Harrison as an English Gentleman, genial, frank and straightforward, is cherished among his surviving contemporaries.
On the roll are names which surviving contemporaries would recognize as belonging to the beau monde of Upper Canada, distinguished and admired in later years.
The surviving principal in the affair, Mr. Samuel Jarvis, underwent a trial at the time and was acquitted.
For, eldest-born and last-surviving of her generation, in a green old age, Philippa Basset was living still.
When he was gone Ulysses planned how he might take vengeance for his murdered friends, and effect his escape with his surviving companions.
Gospel according to the Hebrews (see above), with Lipsius and others, who have sought to reconstruct the original gospel from the surviving fragments of these two distinct works.
The only surviving fragments of the Gospel of the Twelve have been preserved by Epiphanius (Haer.
On his return to Portugal he found that his uncle, the cardinal Henry, only surviving son of King John III.
The Wyandots were victorious, and few of the surviving Senecas escaped to tell the story of their defeat.
Should an Indian woman happen to die in child-bed, they put thesurviving infant to death, as having been the cause of its mother's decease.
A little girl, ten years old, was the only person surviving out of the whole number of captives.
The interesting point however in connection with this family is, that although they have long ago been extinct, they have left their mark behind them still surviving in the town.
Other monuments are, on the wall of the south aisle, a tablet inscribed “To the memory of Elizabeth Kelham, only surviving child of Richard Kelham, Rector of Coningsby.
The lumbering “wain” of the Saxon churl, though still survivingin the name of a constellation, befitted only an age little advanced beyond barbarism.
After the death of his father, the Count was involved in a variety of domestic business, which respect for the memory of his parent, and affection for surviving relations, could not allow him to leave.
William Clerke, the only surviving witness to the deed of revocation produced by Sir Robert, was the person on whose evidence this cause principally rested.
Yet from the still surviving recollections in his mind, the Author has frequently purposed to finish for himself what had been originally, as it were, given to him.
Some honours and attention bestowed on the few surviving chiefs of La Vendée, were equally the subject of misrepresentation.
Carnot and Fouché, formidable names, and revolutionists from their youth upward, were the ostensible leaders of this active party, and most of the surviving revolutionists rallied under their standards.
When he arrived it was between two of the most powerful nobles in the land, one the king's eldest surviving son, the celebrated John of Gaunt, the other Lord Percy, the Lord Marshal of England.
English throne by his eldestsurviving son, Richard I.
The name, to-day the collective term for the overwhelming majority of the surviving Semitic peoples, was originally restricted to the nomad tribes who ranged the north of the peninsula east of Palestine and the Syro-Arabian desert.
It is an appendage of the large intestine, into which it opens, and is regarded as the degenerate relic, surviving in man and other mammals, of an earlier form of intestine.
The Arabs are at once the most ancient as they in many ways are the purest surviving type of the true Semite.
The surviving family, the Talberts, then considered me an unfit guardian.
All barriers had fallen away, leaving them what in fact they were: two frail and frightened human beings, surviving both physically and emotionally by sharing the same warmth, the same breath, the same meager sustenance.
I was the eldest of the only two surviving children of a large family; and, as heir to the baronetcy of the proud Mortons, was looked up to by lord and vassal as the future perpetuator of the family name.
He could not visualize anyonesurviving twin disasters of explosion and torch.
So, too, surviving in the corporate jungle implies a similar fixation in manufacturing responsive heroes to see us through.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surviving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: left; leftover; net; odd; outstanding; over; remaining; spare; superfluous; surplus; unused
