SURVIVOR in a Sentence

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The boy was the only survivor of a large family, who had been successively sold away from her to a southern market.

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 Meanings and Examples of SURVIVOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
survivor
 n.  one who outlives another; one who lives through affliction
Classic Sentence:
1  de Boville, "but not for the survivor; on the contrary, this Dantes saw a means of accelerating his escape."
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28. The Prison Register.
2  The boy was the only survivor of a large family, who had been successively sold away from her to a southern market.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Next day we were picked up by the brig Hotspur, bound for Australia, whose captain found no difficulty in believing that we were the survivors of a passenger ship which had foundered.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
4  Enough and more is the one desolation we have seen, survivors of a captured city.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
Example Sentence:
1  The survivor of the fire was taken to a hospital.
2  The survivors were lifted off by two helicopters, one from the Coastguard and one from the RAF.
3  The five survivors eventually reached safety, ragged, half-starved and exhausted.
4  A fund was set up as a goodwill gesture to survivors and their families.
5  Officials said there were no survivors of the plane crash.
6  Firemen managed to pull some survivors from the wreckage.
7  This book is written with survivors of child sexual abuse in mind.
8  The survivors were adrift on a raft for six days.
9  There are an estimated 86000 survivors around the world and almost half of them could be eligible for payments from the compensation fund.
10  Two small planes collide over Florida Everglades and crash into swamp, no survivors.
11  No one can remain indifferent when an orchestra of Palestinian children comes to play for Holocaust survivors and to bring delight to the old people.
12  The story starts off as a disaster narrative, as most of humanity gets wiped out by a flu virus and the few survivors begin to cluster together.