How to Use alive in a Sentence

alive

adjective

• It feels great to be alive.
• We need to keep hope alive.
• The team needs to win tonight in order to stay alive in the play-offs.
• The sheriff was ordered to find the killer and bring him back alive.
• I love to sail because it makes me feel so alive.
• The patient was barely alive.
• He managed to stay alive for a week without any food.
• The patient is being kept alive by artificial means.
• Campbell proclaims that there isn’t a man alive his age who can match his feat.
  — Scott Talley, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2022
• His dad, Cecil Garvin, learned Hoocąk as a child, and is one of the few still alive who did.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2022
• More than half the people alive in Britain today have known no other monarch on their throne, their coins, their bank notes and their stamps.
  — Maria Puente and Jeff Stinson, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• Earlier in the drive, Richardson ran 10 yards on 4th-and-3 to keep alive the game-winning drive.
  — Edgar Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2022
• That project is technically still alive but has seen no forward movement since early 2023.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 11 Dec. 2024
• Keep their daily coffee habit alive at home or the office with a subscription to Drift Away Coffee's whole bean, ground or cold brew bags.
  — Corinne Sullivan, Good Housekeeping, 6 Sep. 2022
• Manhattan prosecutors urged a New York criminal court to keep Trump's hush money case alive.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
• Charles, who spent much of his 73 years preparing for the role of king, addressed a nation grieving the only British monarch most people alive today had ever known.
  — Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2022
• Fortunately, this author is Maggie O’Farrell, one of the most exciting novelists alive.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• Back in 2022, two men in Ireland were accused of taking a corpse into a post office to pretend the deceased elderly man was still alive in an attempt to claim his pension.
  — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
• The dream of the '90s will be alive in Rogers next summer.
  — Monica Hooper, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2023
• The Comets kept their hopes alive and got the game to overtime.
  — Nathan Dunn, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2024
• Five of the patients were still alive during the study and were in their 50s.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• The one who keeps them alive and in turn draws his own life force.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 11 Jan. 2023
• Disco & Cocktail Club, the dream of the 1970s is alive and well.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• The shades together feel alive, but not too on the nose.
  — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2024
• Green tissue in the middle means the grass is still alive.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2024
• My mom and dad are still alive; all of them are Mormon.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
• But look, now the river’s clean and the banks are alive with trees, small parks and restaurants.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
• This celeb dad knows how to have fun and keep the nostalgia alive.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 17 Oct. 2023
• Can the Jaguars take care of business and keep their playoff hopes alive?
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
• Both of their teams remain alive in the playoffs this week as well.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 9 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024