How to Use outlive in a Sentence

outlive

verb

• No mother wants to outlive her children.
• He outlived his wife by 10 years.
• This was a Jerry Richardson thing, and a symbol that had long ago outlived its original purpose.
  — Scott Fowler, charlotteobserver, 14 May 2018
• This rule was put into place to help retirees make their money last longer and eliminate the fear of outliving their retirement savings.
  — Nathan Bachrach, Cincinnati.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• But even patients whose cancers had very low levels of these mutations outlived patients who got chemotherapy by a median of four months.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 5 June 2018
• Jack Nicklaus wants to outlive all challenges to his collection of 18 major titles.
  — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 18 June 2018
• By the time Hurston arrived, Kossola had outlived his wife and children by almost two decades and was only a few years away from his own death.
  — Casey N. Cep, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
• Death takes a holiday, a holiday that may itself be dying, having outlived its uselessness.
  — Herb Caen, SFChronicle.com, 23 May 2018
• More importantly, said Pincus, the founder-as-ruler concept may have outlived its usefulness, at least at Zynga.
  — Kara Swisher, Recode, 2 May 2018
• These children, who have outlived their siblings with MLD, became our investments in a miracle.
  — Maria Kefalas, STAT, 3 May 2018
• But Dances for the Future may help Mr. Morris’s company outlive his death without taking that step.
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
• One study, published in the National Library of Medicine, found that estrogen helps explain why females tend to outlive males in many species.
  — Priya Oberoi, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• At 61, Johnny Depp has both handily outlived Modigliani and outranked him in terms of antemortem celebrity.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Sep. 2024
• Coroner's investigators discovered a sad tale: The man had grown up in an orphanage, outlived his children and had no other relative to claim his body.
  — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• Female disciples said Castaneda subjected them to cult tactics; the movement outlives its founder, who died in 1998.
  — Los Angeles Magazine, 23 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
• 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
• 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
• The elder Adkisson outlived four of his five wrestling sons.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024