Example Sentences

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The family is surviving on money raised in a GoFundMe online fundraiser.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 15, 2025

"When a mummy comes to us she is often surviving for the sake of her baby and at the end when she is surviving for herself, that is mighty."

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2025

“So to see the color appear, it was just such a bright light in that moment — to feel like something is surviving rather than destroyed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2025

“Glynn is having to live off of GoFundMe, that’s literally how the man is surviving right now, paying rent, buying food,” Norwood said.

From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2023

Aphrodite bewailing Adonis is surviving Nature mourning for departed Man.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville