How to use "survive" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "survive" in popular movie and book plots

  • Despite a few mishaps, including several mischievous escaped monkeys, he manages to survive the experience.  - The Circus (film)
  • His family do not see things in quite the same way as the bombs continue to drop, but their will to survive brings them closer together.  - Hope and Glory (film)
  • Helen and Madeline implore Ernest to drink the potion to survive an impending fall.  - Death Becomes Her
  • O'Halloran, Roberts, Duncan, Claiborne and most of the party-goers survive as water rushes through the building, extinguishing the flames.  - The Towering Inferno
  • Jack and Annie both survive and kiss passionately while onlookers take pictures.  - Speed (1994 film)
  • Along the way, they survive a dangerous brush fire.  - The Sundowners
  • Carrington deduces their visitor requires blood to survive and reproduce.  - The Thing from Another World
  • His wife Molly and their three boys are left to survive on their own.  - In Old Chicago
  • As for his arrival there, only he and three animals, the captain's dog and two cats, survive the shipwreck.  - Robinson Crusoe
  • The Primer is designed to react to its owners' environment and teach them what they need to know to survive and develop.  - The Diamond Age
  • There, Voyager finds the Maquis ship, and eventually the two crews reluctantly agree to join forces to survive their journey home.  - Star Trek: Voyager
  • He is left behind in the sea, and so is the only crewman of the Pequod to survive the final encounter.  - Moby-Dick
  • Scarlett avows that she and her family will survive and never be hungry again.  - Gone with the Wind (novel)
  • Montag and the group are injured and dirtied, but manage to survive the shock wave.  - Fahrenheit 451
  • Now they must survive the Honored Matres, whose reckless conquest of the Old Empire threatens Bene Gesserit survival.  - Chapterhouse: Dune
  • They soon escape and, after tranquillising Branden, Batman dodges as the rest open fire, barely managing to survive after two bullet wounds.  - Batman: Year One

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