How to Use live for in a Sentence
live for
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Freeze said Koehl lived for more than three decades crime-free.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
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The show will air Episode 1 and 2, and can be streamed live for free with a trial of Philo.
—oregonlive, 22 Aug. 2023
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Singing live for every take five days a week is not easy.
—A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
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In both cases, the patients lived for less than two months.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
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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
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Leatherbacks live for at least 50 years, but perhaps much longer.
—Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
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The ceremony in New York City streamed live for the first time on Disney+.
—CBS News, 3 Nov. 2023
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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
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And there’s still so much to live for and so much to be experienced.
—As Told To Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 29 Feb. 2024
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She was born with special needs and lived for only 10 months.
—Abigail Van Buren, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2023
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Speaking of which, a jade plant can live for decades with proper jade plant care.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 14 Aug. 2023
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Those assholes — your grandpa has one thing left to live for.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 14 May 2024
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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
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On the other hand, sperm can live for up to five days under the right conditions.
—Holly Eagleson, Parents, 30 Nov. 2023
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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
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Or yes, for that segment of fans that lives for the idea of audibles being called.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Apr. 2024
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What has happened when a life lived for sentences comes to feel like a life sentence?
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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That decision completely changed me and the kids lives for the better.
—Hannah Chubb, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2023
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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
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There is almost always something at stake, something to live for and fight for.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024
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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
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The first patient, David Bennett, lived for two months before passing away in March 2022.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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