ALIVE in a Sentence

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For ALIVE, below is one of 252 sentences:
Another self was alive in her, burning molten and soft in her womb and bowels, and with this self she adored him.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALIVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
alive
 a.  capable of erupting
 a.  having life or vigor or spirit
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  When captured, he said, Frederick should be boiled alive.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
2  Nowhere was there any trace of Henry Jekyll, dead or alive.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
3  It seemed now hours and hours since she had left the lost man lying in the grave where he had been buried alive.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
4  But, the expectation among the people that the man would be found alive was very slight indeed.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
5  Front-de-Boeuf was burnt alive for a less matter, for he kept a good table for his prisoners, only put too much garlic in his last dish of pottage.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
6  Crippled for ever, knowing he could never have any children, Clifford came home to the smoky Midlands to keep the Chatterley name alive while he could.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  It was obvious in the anxious brightness of his eyes, how proud he was, after the great shock, of being alive.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  It would be wonderful to be intelligent: then one would be alive in all the parts mentioned and unmentionable.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  Since, of course, it's not your own fault you are alive.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  Once you are alive, money is a necessity, and the only absolute necessity.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
11  And they were there, the short-stemmed flowers, rustling and fluttering and shivering, so bright and alive, but with nowhere to hide their faces, as they turned them away from the wind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
12  The slim little chick was greyish brown with dark markings, and it was the most alive little spark of a creature in seven kingdoms at that moment.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
13  The trees stood like powerful beings, dim, twilit, silent and alive.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  She felt the front of his body terribly near to her, and alive.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  Another self was alive in her, burning molten and soft in her womb and bowels, and with this self she adored him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
16  She had despaired of ever being rescued alive.
17  Andy poked the fish with his finger to see if it was still alive.
18  The fish we caught is still alive.
19  The so-called freedom is the reason to be alive.
20  Her husband will skin her alive if she comes home late.
21  I still cling to the hope that he's alive.
22  He had relinquished all hope that she was alive.
23  We tried to keep him alive but to no avail.
24  He was so angry he nearly flayed his horse alive.
25  There is no point in living if you can't feel alive.
26  Doctors kept the baby alive for six weeks.
27  Your father will skin you alive.
28  She had to steal food just to stay alive.
29  The street is alive with rubbish.
30  She does not know if he is alive or dead.