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.
  • Some might say more than just alive.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026
  • This is a good time to be alive.
    — Ross Dimattei, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • So at that point, the project was alive.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Are the Xenomorphs still alive?
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The prayer is that Guthrie is found alive.
    — Kaitlyn Buss, Boston Herald, 18 Feb. 2026
  • None of them checked to make sure that the boy was still alive.
    — Alex Brizee march 3, Idaho Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The one who keeps them alive and in turn draws his own life force.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 11 Jan. 2023
  • None of us are getting out of here alive.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
  • The old urge to confess is alive.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But the creative spark is alive.
    — Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 May 2026
  • Why keep fighting to stay alive?
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • Was this the best-looking man alive?
    — Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Was this the best-looking man alive?
    — Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Who’s keeping you all alive in here?
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Olivia turns out to be kidnapped and alive.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • She would never be seen alive again.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Opened wide and somehow still alive.
    — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • She was never seen alive again.
    — Jeff Capellini, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The boy has died; the girl is barely alive.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
  • For some users, the system is alive.
    — Webb Wright, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Yet the urge—or the duty—was still alive.
    — Bee Wilson, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
  • So many people get paid just to keep myths alive.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025

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