live through

Idioms and Phrases

Endure, survive. This idiom is used both seriously, as in Those who have lived through a depression never forget what it was like , or hyperbolically, as in That speech was endless—I thought I'd never live through it .

Example Sentences

One in four of us are forced to live through the violent assaults that these men resent being made cognizant of.

From The Daily Beast

They simply want us to understand what it was like to live through a nuclear explosion so that none of us ever has to do so again.

From The Daily Beast

“No child should have to live through what Nate lived through,” Terrie said.

From The Daily Beast

It is almost impossible to convey to someone who did not live through that 1963 weekend what it was like.

From The Daily Beast

“I never want to live through that particular Groundhog Day again,” Baker told the Senate Judiciary Committee last July.

From The Daily Beast

Men live through more in five minutes on that crest than they do in five years of Bendigo or Ballarat.

From Project Gutenberg

If I live through this breach of habit, I shall be a white-livered puppy indeed.

From Project Gutenberg

I've lived sixty years and never yet met a trouble I couldn't live through.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet why should I worry about this when there are people who live through it and like it?

From Project Gutenberg

He knew why Rockford had said of this day, "If you can live through it, you will have it made."

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bear
• endure
• exist
• get through
• handle
• keep
• last
• live
• recover
• remain
• ride out
• subsist
• suffer
• sustain
• weather
• withstand