How to Use outlive in a Sentence

outlive

verb

• No mother wants to outlive her children.
• He outlived his wife by 10 years.
• The movie outlived Club 57, the Mudd Club, et al, by decades.
  — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2018
• That gives the Mac a good chance to outlive the current PC fever.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2021
• Cleveland lost the game, but the artistry of the play has outlived the final score.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
• And like his wines, the record is designed to outlive him.
  — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2018
• Lewis wanted the lessons of the movement to outlive him.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2021
• In the flesh or not, Rushdie will outlive all the devil’s tools who have tried to kill him.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
• The trees used in the topiary arts can outlive the people who plant them.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2024
• And the chances of Carter outliving them may be fading.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Oct. 2024
• Video killed the radio star, but vinyl records may yet outlive CDs.
  — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2023
• The tapeworm-laden ants didn’t just outlive their siblings, the team found.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
• Both of their queens will outlive the rest of their respective colonies.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 18 June 2023
• Elephant seals are one of the species in which females outlive males.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 Mar. 2020
• Some hope it’s a shift that will outlive the coronavirus.
  — Hallie Miller, baltimoresun.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• Critics warn that the waste could outlive the grout and seep out again in future centuries.
  — Ralph Vartabedian, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• But the Jesuits have outlived their usefulness to the 77-year-old tyrant.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2023
• But for the current bull to outlive that beast, the stock market must avoid for the next six months a 20% drop from its all-time high on Jan. 26.
  — Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
• The elder Adkisson outlived four of his five wrestling sons.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
• Though Francis has outlived most of her friends, the service will be filled with all who loved her.
  — Dawn Sawyer, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
• There is no official word on how many wives Phil has outlived through over the years.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2024
• They are supposed to outlive you, be your legacy, and then that’s over, all of a sudden.
  — Claire Galofaro, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
• Sammy is proof that there’s no point in trying to outlive the date you’ve been given.
  — Natashia Deón, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• And when ranges overlap, there’s a good chance that any male could outlive any female.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2022
• How big a nest egg?:Pete the Planner: Could a retiree outlive his savings even with a part-time job?
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
• By 2017, the Sherman had again outlived its welcome and got tugged to Vallejo.
  — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 22 Dec. 2019
• In fact, it must be built to outlive its users and enforce their right to be forgotten.
  — Don Tapscott, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2019
• She is resigned to the idea that her loans will probably outlive her.
  — Emily Bobrow, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2019
• It must be built to outlive its users and enforce their right to be forgotten.
  — Don Tapscott, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Much of the audience is aging, and so are some of the artists, who, like Cherry, long ago outlived the king himself.
  — Christopher Spata Tampa Bay Times (tns), Arkansas Online, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024