How to Use alive in a Sentence

alive

adjective

• It feels great to be alive.
• We need to keep hope alive.
• The team needs to win tonight in order to stay alive in the play-offs.
• The sheriff was ordered to find the killer and bring him back alive.
• I love to sail because it makes me feel so alive.
• The patient was barely alive.
• He managed to stay alive for a week without any food.
• The patient is being kept alive by artificial means.
• Kylen Granson had a nice catch while falling to the ground in the fourth quarter to keep a drive alive.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2022
• Investigators said that was the last time League was seen alive.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 27 Nov. 2024
• The mood is upbeat and playful, the space is contagiously alive.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2022
• Rescuers had previously estimated that about half of the whales were still alive.
  — Angus Watson, Wayne Chang and Heather Chen, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
• Webb ran for eight yards on third-and-6 to keep South Alabama’s second touchdown drive alive.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 10 Sep. 2022
• While her competitive days may be behind her, Gunn seems to have found another way to keep her love for breaking alive.
  — Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
• The trust doesn't expire until the last of William Randolph Hearst's grandchildren who were alive at the time of his death have died.
  — Sara Fischer, Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
• Curly is the man Laurey can’t get out of her mind, but her refusal to submit easily to his cocky affections keeps Jud’s hopes alive.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022
• The series follows an innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son, who receives evidence that his child may still be alive—and must break out of prison to find out the truth.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2024
• Through interviews, police learned John traveled 25 miles to Holiday City, Ohio, around the time his sons were last seen alive.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• Bloom has a tearful goodbye with Skye (Danny Griffin), leaves notes for her friends, and enters the realm — where she is met by her mother who is, shockingly, alive.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2022
• With at least half the whales presumed to still be alive, a team from the Marine Conservation Program was heading to the area with whale rescue gear, the department said.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2022
• The dream of the '90s will be alive in Rogers next summer.
  — Monica Hooper, Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2023
• The Comets kept their hopes alive and got the game to overtime.
  — Nathan Dunn, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2024
• Five of the patients were still alive during the study and were in their 50s.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• The one who keeps them alive and in turn draws his own life force.
  — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 11 Jan. 2023
• Disco & Cocktail Club, the dream of the 1970s is alive and well.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• The shades together feel alive, but not too on the nose.
  — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2024
• Green tissue in the middle means the grass is still alive.
  — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Aug. 2024
• My mom and dad are still alive; all of them are Mormon.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2024
• But look, now the river’s clean and the banks are alive with trees, small parks and restaurants.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
• This celeb dad knows how to have fun and keep the nostalgia alive.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 17 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024