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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Implicit in both is the question of what of us, if anything, will outlive us?
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The pet trust law can provide a plan for animal lovers who want to own pets late in life, but who are afraid the pet might outlive them.
    Richard Chin, Star Tribune, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The changes in the stretch IRA rules matter the most to people who saved a great deal and could see their retirement money outlive them.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The work of his son and undergraduate roommate, however, might outlive them all.
    Bygreg McKenna, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024

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