How to Use survivalist in a Sentence

survivalist

noun
  • These doomsday films may or may not turn you into a survivalist.
    — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025
  • As of now, there’s no word if that will be as a survivalist, or as an infected.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The survivalist also was on set for the scenes in which Dafoe had to build the traps.
    — Erin McCarthy, Popular Mechanics, 6 Apr. 2010
  • Alone Africa isn’t even a week old, yet the survivalist are dropping like flies.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 27 June 2025
  • And, in an upcoming episode, one survivalist deals with just that.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Her parents were survivalists and the family felt the end of the world was nigh.
    — Sara Clarkson, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2019
  • There is some survivalist stuff in there too, but also, there are cell phone carriers.
    — The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Brands are no doubt also aware that such coolers’ survivalist bona fides are a big part of their appeal.
    — Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The new series focuses on nine survivalists who are left on an island with no tools and no map.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Bill, the survivalist, doesn't want or need anything more than the minimum.
    — Men's Health, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The husky sea cucumbers were tempting, but the young survivalists had no idea how to turn them into food.
    — Susan Shain, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
  • But the survivalist was quick to note that his mother often called him the scruffiest person in the room.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • To be unreasonable is to be a bad survivalist.
    — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • That gave the original a survivalist feel that the new game mostly rejects.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 11 July 2019
  • From open-fire cooking to archery, contestants are pushed to their limit as chefs and survivalists.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The world of Death Stranding is like a depressed survivalist’s fever dream.
    — Adrian Chen, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The survivalist is willing to damn the rest of the world to protect the man who stumbled into his hideout.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • And why is that crank survivalist allowing a crew of thuggish loggers to clear a path of his prime forestland?
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • Come for the survivalist Schadenfreude and stay for the stunning blindsides.
    — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
  • While living in the Philippines, Modesto joined a survivalist cult.
    — Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 14 Mar. 2018
  • One of the producers had been through Army survivalist training.
    — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The men were survivalists planning to turn the water truck into a mobile bomb, Schultz says.
    — Zak Podmore, The Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Perhaps a survivalist who has been off the grid since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Cowles said that can dilute the survivalist genes of Connecticut bees that have made it through our winters.
    — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 8 May 2017
  • All of the survivalists have been placed along the banks of a massive lake somewhere in the Great Karoo.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 13 June 2025
  • Hartley leads Tracker as Colter Shaw, a survivalist with a dark past.
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The survivalists will have to find a way to prevail with wreckage and debris scattered throughout the island.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
  • For the first time ever on Naked and Afraid, two survivalists will be stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean.
    — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 14 July 2017
  • Ramey, who has been prepping for decades, says that people in the market for survivalist gear have far more options now than even in the recent past.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 12 Mar. 2020
  • In secret Facebook groups, rich would-be survivalists share their ideas about the best places to move to avoid the effects of climate change.
    — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 23 Jan. 2017

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