live through

1. 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

With the two-year anniversary of the Hamas-led attack on Israel just over a week away, there are many in Israel and Gaza who will be fervently hoping that that they will not have to live through a third year of the war.

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“It is even more breathtaking,” Baltimore said in 1997, shortly after taking the Caltech job, “to live through it.”

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"It's such a long time to wait until the next game. You've got to sit and live through this and it is a brutal experience."

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Sabrine Mahmoud said: "I will not leave my house. We will not live through displacement again. We left Gaza City for a whole year and endured the harshest humiliation in al-Mawasi. We will not repeat the mistake. Let them destroy the house over our heads – we will not leave."

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"But I have been lucky enough to live through the consequences - and they were horrendous. So maybe now I feel like I've done my time."

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Related Words

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