How to Use live for in a Sentence

live for

phrasal verb

• Freeze said Koehl lived for more than three decades crime-free.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
• The show will air Episode 1 and 2, and can be streamed live for free with a trial of Philo.
  — oregonlive, 22 Aug. 2023
• Singing live for every take five days a week is not easy.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
• In both cases, the patients lived for less than two months.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
• The legal age of consent in the U.K., where Sawayama has lived for most of her life, is 16.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
• Leatherbacks live for at least 50 years, but perhaps much longer.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• The ceremony in New York City streamed live for the first time on Disney+.
  — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2023
• The people of Gaza have lived for more than two months under the constant specter of death.
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
• And there’s still so much to live for and so much to be experienced.
  — As Told To Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 29 Feb. 2024
• She was born with special needs and lived for only 10 months.
  — Abigail Van Buren, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2023
• Speaking of which, a jade plant can live for decades with proper jade plant care.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 14 Aug. 2023
• Those assholes — your grandpa has one thing left to live for.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 14 May 2024
• That was the brass ring that meant that your show was gonna go on and have a life after its initial run and live for decades.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2024
• On the other hand, sperm can live for up to five days under the right conditions.
  — Holly Eagleson, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
• That is why many of these trees live for thousands of years: The oldest sequoia is more than 3,200 years old.
  — WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023
• Or yes, for that segment of fans that lives for the idea of audibles being called.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Apr. 2024
• What has happened when a life lived for sentences comes to feel like a life sentence?
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• Wanda Buchanan, a teacher, has lived for 49 years in the same home on Chisholm Trail, a road that overlooks large fields on the south edge of town.
  — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• Before the night was over, the No Shoes Nation was treated to 26 songs about living for the summer and living for the here and now.
  — Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
• This time, one of the dogs lived for more than a month without the new organ being rejected.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
• That decision completely changed me and the kids lives for the better.
  — Hannah Chubb, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
• Heywood, the Olympic hopeful, lived for a time with the girl’s family in Santa Ynez.
  — Gus Garcia-Roberts, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2023
• There is almost always something at stake, something to live for and fight for.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
• Native to the West Coast, the playful and intelligent creatures can live for up to 30 years.
  — Allison Elyse Gualtieri, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
• The first patient, David Bennett, lived for two months before passing away in March 2022.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
• Native to the Malabar coast of India and Sri Lanka, black pepper is a vine that grows up to 40 feet tall and lives for three decades.
  — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 20 Apr. 2024
• But with the help of Mr. Bannon, who streams live for four hours every weekday, Mr. Gaetz and others don’t need to rely on any of that.
  — Annie Karni, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Some deals will be available during both days, others will be live for 24 hours, and some only run for a few hours.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
• The suspect was born in the Welsh capital of Cardiff and had lived for years in a village near Southport itself, police said.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 31 July 2024
• James Fenimore Cooper, the novelist who invented the Western and introduced it to the world, and who lived for a time in nearby Mamaroneck, set his first best-seller here.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 28 Aug 2024