How to Use live through in a Sentence

live through

phrasal verb
  • People in their 70s and 80s have lived through all of that.
    Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The daughter, the sister, the woman, the mother, the friend lives through all of us who love and admire here.
    Griselda Flores, Billboard, 27 June 2024
  • Near to two centuries on, the feeling of living through end-times is not alien to us.
    Rebecca Giggs, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
  • For now, though, what a nightmare the Bruins are about to be living through.
    Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Not that the father’s dreams were achieved by living through his son, but his son’s dreams.
    Shannon Carpenter, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
  • That is the reality that these kids had to live through.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • He’s lived through a slide just like this – almost to the dates – and still walked into the postseason.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Texas resident Joshua Bell lived through three of them.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
  • To anyone who lived through the Cold War, the story felt familiar.
    Brian Klaas, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Baby boomers lived through the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.
    Paige Hagy, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • When he was first admitted to the hospital, physicians gave him a 2% chance to live through the night.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • At 105, Irvine has lived through two pandemics, more than a dozen recessions and six wars.
    Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 1 July 2023
  • With nearly every month of 2024 having been the warmest on record, the world may be living through the hottest year yet.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2024
  • His wife and girls just lived through the unthinkable and unimaginable.
    Njera Perkins, Peoplemag, 19 July 2024
  • The 17-year-old and dozens of other first graders who lived through that day are now entering young adulthood.
    Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024
  • Older Jews lived through the trials and triumphs of the early Jewish state.
    Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Yet none of them nails the sensation of living through streaming’s chaos quite like The Other Two does.
    Time, 29 June 2023
  • Over the years, the museum has made a point of documenting the stories of the people who lived through the conflict.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But the filmmaker and the people who lived through the experience knew that one side of the story still hadn’t been told.
    Gregory Ellwood, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • More to Read Column: Millions of Angelenos haven’t lived through a big quake.
    Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Three of the characters leap back to their present, while one of them stays behind and lives through the intervening years once again.
    Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Anybody who lives through war is affected for their whole life?
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Now my youngest child, born in America in May 2021, is living through the third wave of Israeli bombing.
    Mosab Abu Toha, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Other reporters are able to watch the proceedings live through a video stream in an overflow room down the hallway.
    David Jackson, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
  • All of us lived through his presidency, so right back at you, buddy.
    Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024
  • But his experience living through the city's siege changed his mind.
    Mike Corder, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Each episode focuses on one true horror tale as told by the real people who lived through it.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Lorraine Ali: Millions of Angelenos haven’t lived through a big quake.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • This was not the case; the characters lived through real events on the island, and the flash sideways was a separate spiritual journey.
    Janey Tracey, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Moore lived through the Hollywood that Fargeat is satirizing, and in her 40-something years in the business, she’s probably been asked more about her workout routine than her craft.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024

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