How to Use survival in a Sentence

survival

noun
  • The refugees depend on foreign aid for their survival.
  • Small businesses are fighting for survival.
  • The world is in a state of survival.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2026
  • My whole life has been survival.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • My whole life has been survival.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
  • The text shows what survival bought.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Growth and survival aren’t the same thing.
    — Ali Aydan, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Your brain treats the sale like a threat to your survival.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The five-year survival rate is less than 7%.
    — Brad Quick, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • For Zhang, hard work meant survival.
    — Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But survival is not the end of the story.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Time is running out and survival is at stake.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Our survival brain wants to rush to an endpoint.
    — Hylke Faber, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And this was such a pure survival story.
    — Outside, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Out of pure survival, I am forced to stay in the present.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Cities see these deals as a matter of survival.
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 10 Apr. 2026
  • To an extent, the film is about survival.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 25 May 2026
  • Did my body go into survival mode?
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Both terms are used whether an event results in survival or death.
    — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • And for the people who taught me that, that was about survival.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 June 2023
  • What looks like survival pay here can be life-changing abroad.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Then work becomes more about survival than growth.
    — Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • At its core, the show isn’t about survival anymore.
    — Kristen Geil, Outside, 24 Feb. 2026
  • There is a pride and culture through survival, and that gives me hope.
    — Mandi Wright, Freep.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Stress in small spurts—called acute stress—is crucial to our survival.
    — Andrea Petersen, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Each guest learns survival skills and is put to the test out in the wilderness.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Shalom dwindled for years, and with it their prospects for long-term survival.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, Baltimore Sun, 9 May 2022
  • Yes—but survival will require change.
    — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • What for some is a nuisance is for others a threat to survival.
    — Javier Panzar, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Hope for his survival largely hinges on him being on a life raft.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 2023

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