How to Use survival in a Sentence

survival

noun

• The refugees depend on foreign aid for their survival.
• Small businesses are fighting for survival.
• In seven of the eight species, the survival rate has been 85 to 90 percent.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
• Each guest learns survival skills and is put to the test out in the wilderness.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022
• And for the people who taught me that, that was about survival.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 June 2023
• Still, the survival of the grasshopper sparrow is in doubt.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• The subject of the piece is the writer’s struggle for survival.
  — Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• The thing that stuck with me the most was the camouflaging and their survival skills.
  — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• The chances of my survival in these dire conditions would be slim to none.
  — Ryan Hampton, Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• This can involve omitting the whole truth as a form of survival.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• She was too consumed by stress and the struggle for survival.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• What for some is a nuisance is for others a threat to survival.
  — Javier Panzar, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Stress in small spurts—called acute stress—is crucial to our survival.
  — Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
• The Iliad’s subject is death, and the Odyssey’s is survival.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Fear is the agent used by the regime to control the masses, and maintaining joy was a means of survival.
  — Tara Grammy, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Feb. 2023
• For their long-term survival, both broadcast and cable news have the cash cow of live sports.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
• The Bacon Brothers’ 25-plus years as a band is proof enough of their survival skills.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
• Some say making them the ‘be-all, end-all’ of shows’ survival is risky business.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• John Foster Through his shock and grief, John prayed for her survival.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• With no survival plan, the two made their way to Mexico.
  — Fox News, 21 Aug. 2022
• These pressures threaten the long-term survival of elephants in the wild.
  — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
• Both terms are used whether an event results in survival or death.
  — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• For all stages combined, the five-year survival rate is only 12%.
  — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• Of course, a vote on a bill and a vote on the survival of a government are two different things.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Outdoor survival shows have been around for more than 20 years.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 30 Aug. 2024
• These survival skills utilized in the show will be the main focus of its new spin off series.
  — al, 4 Aug. 2022
• The Navy jet dropped survival packs to the three men and relayed their location to the rescue center.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• The weather was warm and dry when the chicks should have been hatching, thus survival of broods should have been decent.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022
• Desperation set in, so the survivors drew cards — and whoever pulled the Queen of Hearts was to be sacrificed to ensure the survival of the others.
  — Michaela Zee, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
• But even the past shows signs of treading water, with the team returning to schoolgirl squabbles while their survival isn’t in immediate danger.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 14 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 2 Mar 2025