This page shows Surviving in 20 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like living. Useful when writing or proofreading a text.
Surviving meaning
present participle and gerund of survive
Synonyms of Surviving
Example sentences (20)
Guitarist Gary Rossington, the last surviving original member of Southern rock institution Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died.
For weeks, he’s been sending videos to The National breaking down the reality of surviving in those harsh conditions.
Emmy nominee Giovanni Ribisi (The Offer) will play Dan Cogdell, a top trial lawyer for the surviving Branch Davidians.
Group village head Kamoto thanked government for giving her people relief maize, saying they were surviving on mangoes.
A campaign had been launched in The Sun newspaper to find his surviving family members so they could attend his funeral.
Her father, a Dutch Jew, was the only surviving child of his family when he came out of hiding after the war.
It seemed such a shame that this fascinating diversity had been reduced to a single surviving expression: us.
It was allegedly a bizarre attempt to gift his surviving son Buster with a $10 million life insurance policy.
A surviving child was led down the corridor, her clothes caked in dust, an expression of shock on her face.
He developed a reputation for being dogged in his pursuit of justice, even after surviving an assassination attempt in 2001.
Her experience with surviving the Ghostface killers gives her an edge that almost no other horror protagonist can duplicate.
Jerry Maren, the last surviving Munchkin from the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz,” died at a San Diego nursing home; he was 99.
But without conservation efforts, experts say, chances of these species surviving would be even smaller.
Daughter Deirdre Shaw, son Anthony Shaw, and stepson David Shaw are the surviving offspring of Lansbury.
Fortified Legends like Gibraltar, Newcastle, and Caustic will have an easier time surviving since they can absorb more damage.
He said it appeared one of the surviving victims was on probation, and another was awaiting adjudication for a firearm offence.
Investigators said Woods and the other surviving member of the family of three then took McKay's truck and drove to their home.
And after all of those years, Dennis still keeps in touch with the surviving members of Fleetwood Mac.
He made no mention of state patronage, of his pristine teachings surviving only in an island called Lanka, of rituals or relics.
His surviving siblings are Norman (Julie) Grimm of Wellsville, Ohio, and Linda Grimm of Toronto, Ohio.
Common combinations with surviving
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the surviving 40×
- surviving the 16×
- only surviving 11×
- after surviving 10×
- of surviving 8×
- and surviving 8×
- surviving on 8×
- last surviving 7×
- his surviving 6×
- surviving family 6×
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