How to Use survival in a Sentence

survival

noun

• The refugees depend on foreign aid for their survival.
• Small businesses are fighting for survival.
• In seven of the eight species, the survival rate has been 85 to 90 percent.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2024
• And for the people who taught me that, that was about survival.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 June 2023
• Still, the survival of the grasshopper sparrow is in doubt.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• The subject of the piece is the writer’s struggle for survival.
  — Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• The chances of my survival in these dire conditions would be slim to none.
  — Ryan Hampton, Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• This can involve omitting the whole truth as a form of survival.
  — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
• She was too consumed by stress and the struggle for survival.
  — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• What for some is a nuisance is for others a threat to survival.
  — Javier Panzar, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• The Iliad’s subject is death, and the Odyssey’s is survival.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• Fear is the agent used by the regime to control the masses, and maintaining joy was a means of survival.
  — Tara Grammy, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Feb. 2023
• For their long-term survival, both broadcast and cable news have the cash cow of live sports.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2024
• Some say making them the ‘be-all, end-all’ of shows’ survival is risky business.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2023
• John Foster Through his shock and grief, John prayed for her survival.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• These pressures threaten the long-term survival of elephants in the wild.
  — Stephen J. Beard, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
• Both terms are used whether an event results in survival or death.
  — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• For all stages combined, the five-year survival rate is only 12%.
  — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
• Of course, a vote on a bill and a vote on the survival of a government are two different things.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• Outdoor survival shows have been around for more than 20 years.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 30 Aug. 2024
• The Navy jet dropped survival packs to the three men and relayed their location to the rescue center.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
• Hope for his survival largely hinges on him being on a life raft.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023
• Make sure your car has at least half a tank of gas, and update your winter survival kit.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
• The spirit of survival is still there, [but] the direction is commerce.
  — Crystal B. Shepeard, Billboard, 7 Dec. 2023
• Freedom is a far-off dream when one’s own very survival is in question.
  — Mustafa Barghouti, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
• Once lung cancer spreads to other parts of the body, long term survival is as low as five percent.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
• Throughout the course of the game, Abby ends up at odds with Ellie’s own quest for revenge and survival.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Aug. 2024
• For Édouard Louis, revisiting the past is an act of survival.
  — Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
• No longer does our survival depend upon our ability to stalk a springbok.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
• Now, only Australia’s northern waters hold some of the last remaining populations of sawfish on the planet... and their survival now depends on all of us.
  — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024