How to Use outlive in a Sentence

outlive

verb

• No mother wants to outlive her children.
• He outlived his wife by 10 years.
• That gives the Mac a good chance to outlive the current PC fever.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2021
• Cleveland lost the game, but the artistry of the play has outlived the final score.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
• Lewis wanted the lessons of the movement to outlive him.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2021
• In the flesh or not, Rushdie will outlive all the devil’s tools who have tried to kill him.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 3 Apr. 2023
• Video killed the radio star, but vinyl records may yet outlive CDs.
  — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2023
• The tapeworm-laden ants didn’t just outlive their siblings, the team found.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
• Both of their queens will outlive the rest of their respective colonies.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 18 June 2023
• Some hope it’s a shift that will outlive the coronavirus.
  — Hallie Miller, baltimoresun.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• Critics warn that the waste could outlive the grout and seep out again in future centuries.
  — Ralph Vartabedian, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• But the Jesuits have outlived their usefulness to the 77-year-old tyrant.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2023
• The elder Adkisson outlived four of his five wrestling sons.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
• There is no official word on how many wives Phil has outlived through over the years.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2024
• They are supposed to outlive you, be your legacy, and then that’s over, all of a sudden.
  — Claire Galofaro, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022
• Sammy is proof that there’s no point in trying to outlive the date you’ve been given.
  — Natashia Deón, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• And when ranges overlap, there’s a good chance that any male could outlive any female.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2022
• It must be built to outlive its users and enforce their right to be forgotten.
  — Don Tapscott, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
• Much of the audience is aging, and so are some of the artists, who, like Cherry, long ago outlived the king himself.
  — Christopher Spata Tampa Bay Times (tns), Arkansas Online, 17 July 2023
• Implicit in both is the question of what of us, if anything, will outlive us?
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
• The hominid outlived its cousins throughout Africa, Asia and Europe.
  — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2023
• That poses a problem when the blades outlive the mechanical parts of the turbines.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2022
• Things didn’t go out of order, like a father outliving his son.
  — Teresa Strasser, Good Housekeeping, 9 Aug. 2023
• Even the great Ortiz, 46, will not outlive that lingering truth.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
• First used to send messages over land in 1844, Morse code outlived the telegraph age by becoming the lingua franca of the sea.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2024
• And the state can’t put a claim on it if there is a co-owner who outlives the Medi-Cal beneficiary.
  — Bernard J. Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• This Cold War relic has outlived its usefulness and should be changed.
  — Thomas Emanuel Dans, WSJ, 25 May 2023
• That case will likely join the growing tide of plastic waste and could easily outlive you.
  — Pia Ceres, Wired, 11 Nov. 2021
• Not to mention the battery life on an eReader will most often outlive a tablet or smartphone.
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2023
• Our bones will likely outlive the rest of our corporeal form by tens if not hundreds of years.
  — Mia Mercado, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024