Example Sentences

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Holbein, Ms. Goldring writes, was always able to “distance himself from patrons who had outlived their usefulness.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

My stepsister raised concerns with her father that if one spouse outlived the other, the surviving spouse could change the trust.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

But Adams outlived that prediction, livestreaming from his hospital bed during a stay for radiation treatment before Christmas and picking up again from his bed at home after that.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026

The country's next national census, scheduled for 2027, will - for the first time in nearly a century - count every caste, a social hierarchy that has long outlived kingdoms, empires and ideologies.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

Because Bill unexpectedly outlived Rita by a few days, he had inherited much of her wealth, and upon his death the money went to one of his relatives.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann