How to Use outlive in a Sentence

outlive

verb
  • No mother wants to outlive her children.
  • He outlived his wife by 10 years.
  • This show will outlive me in this job.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Willie has a whole body of work that will outlive him.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Many of these works have far outlived their creators.
    — Literary Hub, 29 May 2026
  • The risk of outliving the plan.
    — Jon Sabes, Fortune, 7 June 2026
  • Nobody wants to outlive their child.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Elephant seals are one of the species in which females outlive males.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Both of their queens will outlive the rest of their respective colonies.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 18 June 2023
  • The cliché has proved too apt to discard—and its usage has long outlived both men.
    — W. Joseph Campbell, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Cleveland lost the game, but the artistry of the play has outlived the final score.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
  • And when ranges overlap, there’s a good chance that any male could outlive any female.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The tapeworm-laden ants didn’t just outlive their siblings, the team found.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
  • And the fictional one will outlive me.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The trees used in the topiary arts can outlive the people who plant them.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2024
  • She is resigned to the idea that her loans will probably outlive her.
    — Emily Bobrow, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Samuel Adams also outlived his.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Samuel Adams also outlived his.
    — Stacy Schiff, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • It must be built to outlive its users and enforce their right to be forgotten.
    — Don Tapscott, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In the flesh or not, Rushdie will outlive all the devil’s tools who have tried to kill him.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 30 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • In fact, it must be built to outlive its users and enforce their right to be forgotten.
    — Don Tapscott, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Critics warn that the waste could outlive the grout and seep out again in future centuries.
    — Ralph Vartabedian, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • Most of us outlive our parents and meet our long-term friends and partners later in life.
    — Our Place, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The fish, a type of carp that can live for decades, outlived all the dogs except the last — Tegan.
    — Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Only two lived to age 5 and Martha outlived all of her children.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 8 May 2026

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