How To Use Alive In A Sentence

Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.
I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical. Shadow Games
When alive, the spiders kept on the gaster-only diet initially grew but then shriveled, while those eating the head, legs and thoraces thrived, with some tripling their weight. Why Spiders Always Devour Ants Head First | Impact Lab
Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind

I play the stunning orchestral suite quite often, at which time the film comes vividly alive again and again. Times, Sunday Times
Not feeling hungry again until about ten that night, we strolled along to the same street that had earlier been alive with culinary possibilities. Times, Sunday Times
If the stylist is still alive and well today, it’s only because Ms. Houston hadn’t also tripped over the long train on that gown, but I’d venture a guess that his or her days of working for Whitney are Oh-Oh-Ooooh-Oh-ver. Whitney Houston wardrobe malfunction: Yikes, she really didn't need that... | EW.com
As people who ought to know better," observed M. Kollsen, "now think the wind is alive, and call it Nipen, or the mist of the lake and river, which they call the sprite Uldra. Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow"
I really like this definition, the photo surface is as sensitive and fragile as if it was alive and des-troying itself little by little.
In some places it is primeval and wet, where streaky barked eucalyptus strive upwards through dripping mists alive with frog croaks.
She was cautious, but Feinstein finds no trace of dishonour in the care she took to keep herself alive and free through successive waves of revolution and purgation.
But Ms. Economy pointed to the elaborateness of concept and coordination of details — "the flowers are matching," she observed — leading her to suspect they may have had professional help bringing the Halloween spirit alive. Suburban Tricks, Urban Treats
Most of the child hostages who were seized by terrorists were reported to be alive.
In the sunlight, the steel surface comes alive with reflections, picking up the green of the surrounding grass.
So that model is alive and well and in the minds of many people, rather than the later medieval, misogynous legislation.
Derek constantly overcompensates for his lack of intelligence by proclaiming himself the smartest man alive.
And survivors of the Rwandan genocide and the holocaust work to keep the memories of their relatives alive.
Yet this was all alive, in silver-gray, white, black, greens deep or bright and asparkle with remnant raindrops. The Boat of a Million Years
There are drifts of feverfew, clouds of philadelphus, grasses whispering in the breeze, and everywhere the perfume of 1,000 blossoms keeping the countryside alive in the heart of London.
But since the controversy is still very much alive, it seems advisable to take a new look at this issue.
Unpredictable, emotional and alive, it is, in keeping with the area, soul with the rough edges intact.
For most people such details might be rather boring, but Robertson makes the narrative come alive through the personalities.
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. Walt Disney
The foraging bee, if alive after its visit to the beautiful white flowers of almonds, for example, laden with invisible spheres of asphyxiating gas, would be bringing back to its home pollen and nectar mixed with parathion. Honeybees in Danger
The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
With the loss of so many illusions at once I cannot remember when I have felt so vulnerable or chastened, but neither can I remember when I have felt so alive.
It's all too easy for me to "pass" and let society define me as merely "kind of Jewish looking"; but I think I should begin to reclaim my heritage while my gran is still alive. I hope when the end comes it is painless
In the toad and in the dog, adrenalectomy diminishes but does not suppress the diabetogenic effect of the anterior lobe extract, which can be obtained in adrenalectomized dogs, in which the pancreas has been surgically reduced, and which are kept alive by treatment with desoxycorticosterone and salt or even with sodium chloride alone. Bernardo Houssay - Nobel Lecture
The paramedic said he was still alive, moving his hand and murmuring something. Times, Sunday Times
It should be appreciated that brothers, sisters, stepbrothers and stepsisters are not entitled to any share of the inheritance when children and parents of the deceased are alive.
IHSB: The way to describe the first pro season for the most oddly named man alive (Allen Lorenz Pollock = A.J. Pollock?) is solid but unspectacular, which is disappointing given that the organization expected him to rip through Mid-A South Bend given that Midwest League Competition wasn't foreign to Pollock, given that Notre Dame plays an exhibition game against the SilverHawks at the beginning of each season. AZ Snakepit
And that culture was nowhere near moribund, but being kept alive, and by ordinary people as much as ‘elites’.
That sense of aliveness isn't there when you read the text, and seeing the performance will be much more engaging.
It seemed impossible that anyone could come alive through that cyclone of destruction. The Sun
Still, the doctor is not convinced, but he does offer his story of a murderous ventriloquist whose dummy seemed more alive, and violent, than he was.
The true King of England is alive and well and living in the outback of Australia.
The reefs close to shore are alive with pollack, and conger eels when the boat is anchored and during the summer months there are lots of the sleek and fast running blue sharks around.
I used to massage the skin, too, to make it supple and alive. Times, Sunday Times
The argument was kept alive by the politicians.
He would never have gone to the Union while his wife was alive: she said it was "plebby. The Key to Rebecca
It was then allowed to recover on the stringer in deeper water before being returned alive to grow on to even larger proportions.
We spend our days hunting for things to keep us alive. Times, Sunday Times
there are few Manx speakers alive today
They have kept it alive in the past and continue to make it plausible for millions of people today.
CVG-Bauxilum's 'interim' president Alfredo Arcila says that he and CVG president Rodolfo Sanz "are alive and kicking!" yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'CVG-Bauxilum\'s \'interim\' president Alfredo Arcila says that he and CVG president Rodolfo Sanz "are alive and kicking!"' CVG-Bauxilum's 'interim' president Alfredo Arcila says that he and CVG president Rodolfo Sanz "are alive and kicking!"
Of course, Whitty himself ain’t exactly a peach; he loves him some torture, and buries knives in bellies with minimal provocation; when it comes to witch-hunting, he’s of the “burn her alive now, ask questions … well, don’t really bother asking questions, it’s just so damn fun to burn people, let’s do it some more!” school. Cry of the Banshee « Skid Roche
The thanatological philosophies of spirit that Schelling here wishes were dead are in fact very much alivehence the reiterated forcefulness of his censure. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
The Hindu fakir would sit for days without food or water, or bury himself alive as a kind of spiritual observance, a separation of mind from body.
Golub was an odd man out, one of those who kept alive certain ambitions scuttled by the artists who followed Abstract Expressionism.
Bouquet: The nose is alive with aromas of Turkish delight, spice , cloves dried herbs.
It is a system that is alive, whether or not it possesses all the attributes needed for an organism.
This white-naped mangabey monkey was born at The Bioparco Zoo in Rome, Italy, and is part of an international breeding program to keep the species alive.
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive. Walt Disney
It seemed impossible that anyone could come alive through that cyclone of destruction. The Sun
After all this time she was alive, living, breathing, and walking on the earth.
He is still very much alive and he looks just like his pictures, only considerably older of course.
They can't say conclusively he's not alive, and the presumption is they must aggressively pursue every avenue of this case. Scott Speicher
Britain has a window of opportunity to bring her coastline alive again. Times, Sunday Times
Freedom was alive as well, in a vivid and scarcely palatable way. Times, Sunday Times
The gladdest part is that Laura's music is alive, vital, and accessible. Laura Nyro
In Scotland there are groups of people who are fighting hard to keep Gaelic alive.
You'll be glad to hear that Bill is alive and kicking.
Life can not fade , the multiple spot color can't accommodate oneself to wonderful just now best,alive.
I feel unwanted feel like leaving spreading lies can't help but feel lonelily you've damned me to hell once twice and again you're supposed to be my parents not just another person that hates me dead - alive Godhatesu Diary Entry
She visited her relatives in Castledermot on a yearly basis when her brother and sister were alive.
Arguing that FDR provoked the attack was Gore Vidal, novelist, provocateur, T. V. icon, and one of the greatest English-language essayists alive.
The only defence remaining alive at present is, therefore, I suggest, the disputed decision about qualifying privilege.
After an exchange of letters, I have finally got my appointment for next week - whoopee, I am still alive to attend it, thank God.
When Harry's turned on, his adrenaline flows and the endorphins pump, and he feels alive instead of dead.
You're very lucky to be alive after that accident.
And if from this conjunction a baby was born, the infernal rite was resumed, all around a little jar of wine, which they called the keg, and they became drunk and would cut the baby to pieces, and pour its blood into the goblet, and they threw babies on the fire, still alive, and they mixed the baby's ashes and his blood, and drank! The Name of the Rose
What methods of signaling other troops will there be implemented in the game. eg. do you need a radio operator alive in your squad to communicate with other squads?
Then I saw how the ladies came alive at his gentlemanly attentions, how flattered they were by them.
Veracruz City's Plaza de Armas or zócalo is alive with smiling people and food, chotchke and balloon vendors. There's a lot to see and do in Veracruz, Mexico
On the second, he charged to the net and put away a backhand volley to keep his hopes alive.
A couple have told how they are lucky to be alive after a horse pulling their carriage ran amok and started a stampede during a holiday pleasure trip.
It is important not to confuse the sociological meaning of age with the notion of chronological age, the length of time a person has been alive. Sociology
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Even without captain Mats Sundin, the Toronto Maple Leafs are still alive in the playoff chase. USATODAY.com
Through her suit, Suzie Nova felt the diamantine exterior of the alien contraption throb faintly below her feet, alive with incomprehensible energies that course through it like blood through arteries.
I'’m bored" is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say "I’m bored.". Louis C.K.
National Provisions Company, and went out preaching fiat money and a subtreasury for the farmers 'crops, trusting to God and the flower garden about his little white house, to keep the family alive -- it is odd that Jeanette's childish impression was that General Ward was a man of consequence in the world. A Certain Rich Man
If the mother is allowed to refuse a kidney donation that would keep her child alive once the child is born, why should she be preluded from having an abortion if she wants one in order to save one of her kidneys? The Volokh Conspiracy » “Should a Parent Be Required To Donate a Kidney to a Child Who Needs a Life-Saving Transplant?”
The couple beside us were toasting the fact of just being alive on so blissful a night.
By night the beach comes alive with the sound of reggae from relaxed bars. Times, Sunday Times
She suffered greatly while she was alive, so let us hope her soul is now at peace.
The six tapestries she planted come alive with interwoven threads of color and texture from golden boxleaf honeysuckle, lavender, hebe, leatherleaf sedge, and Bowles' golden sedge bordered by dwarf boxwood.
Have you then seen the same old coffin dodger like ten years later and been utterly gobsmacked to see them still alive and kicking?
And while Annie inflicts humiliation and degradation and withholds pain relief and food Paul is forced to write a new chapter every day simply to stay alive.
The specialists simply have to intensify their focus to stay alive, offering products and services that mass merchants cannot.
Today, ashrams and monasteries of various Hindu sects keep the traditions of classical learning alive.
I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
I was glad to hear you're alive and well.
At the end, instead of a fat lady singing, we get a thinner but happier Watt contentedly crooning about how great it is to be alive.
For an owner, trainer or jockey their dreams are alive at this time of year. Times, Sunday Times
The word ‘article’ means something inanimate which is not and never has been alive.
Some people we clearly know to think he is wrong, but still insist to think, because it's not alive.
The somnolent Hampden conference suddenly started to come alive as he laid into Labour as a waste of space in Westminster.
I think that it is because a man, to be attractive, must be free to give his whole time to it, and the Canadian male is so hounded by taxes and the rigours of our climate, that he is lucky to be alive, without being irresistible as well. 2009 June 30 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
So I think of Beckett as not being religious in the usual sense but at least being alive, being truly alive, and horror-struck by it.
As time passes, around 2,000 women involved have gradually died, with only 30 of them still alive - still anxious about the possible end and that they may never hear the government's true-hearted confession.
Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. Erich Fromm
As he rode along the lanes, his nostrils filled with the heady scent of elderflowers, and the air was alive with stag beetles whose chunky black bodies whirred defiantly through the dusk.
Yet as a wartime document the exhibition feels fresh and alive. Times, Sunday Times
Much African art still seems religiously alive and therefore not entirely at home in a secular environment.
There is Pricey, an infantile young woman who cares for her rag doll child as if it was alive.
The Windsor, the oldest five-star hotel in Australia, at first can seem fusty and a little conservative, but she soon comes alive with the stories told about her.
Baffler editors have called commodification of dissent stretches back to Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and is alive and well in what he calls the "alienation market" in which films like Fahrenheit 9 / 11 either already have or are destined to make bundles (relatively speaking, of course). GreenCine Daily
Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) General Joo Manuel lask week said that the 14 people on board that plane were alive and held hostage by UNITA forces. ANC Daily News Briefing
The herds and bands of elephants, horses, dancing girls and musicians, and scenes from the Ramayana come alive on the outer walls of the temple.
This, along with all the arguments against ratification of the EU Constitution, is something which we need to ram home at this moment when our electorate is so alive to the notion that they are being cozened by Labour and the Liberal ‘Democrats’ about the true effect of this Treaty. Archive 2008-02-03
Tim Russert may very well be alive right now if office staff had defibrillated him on-the-spot! Remembering Tim Russert | EW.com
We wish to assure the public that the teaching, reading and writing of poetry are alive and well at Rio Rancho High School.
The researchers found no separated bones or partial skeletons, which suggests that the dinosaurs were rapidly entombed while still alive.
That's, kind of, the heart of what they call compassionate conservatism: that the American experience must be alive and viable for everyone, and that government has a role to help people have the tools so they can help themselves. CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2004
Frankly, my only concern was that the resident copperhead (don't ask; I've been sworn to secrecy) got out alive.
But we are able to give him all our love and he returns it just by being alive. The Sun
Coastguards had given up all hope of finding the two divers alive.
The now defunct Glasgow Club's record haul of 33 wins keeps them alive in name only in the history books ahead of their former rivals - though very much still in existence!
If it is alive then it probably is not a dinosaur, since dinosaurs are extinct.
This Ethiopian farmer is facing famine again and, to keep his eight children alive, has been reduced to collecting wood and grass from the bush to sell at market for two birr a bundle.
Confidence doesn't need any specific reason. If you're alive , you should feel 100 percent confident.
The town came alive as hundreds of people joined in the festivities.
Many more are still alive, but profoundly vulnerable.
There was no chance of him being found alive and the search was abandoned.
And now only one of those two years is gone; and -- I am here, _here_, alive only through charity! The Genius
He's crisscrossing down another ski slope to keep his world - record streak alive.
God often works by contrarieties, he first kills and then makes alive, he woundeth first and then healeth, he makes man sow in tears that he may reap in joy; 'tis God's method: he that is so visited, must with patience endure and rest satisfied for the present. Anatomy of Melancholy
Yet, as Bolger leisurely sets the stage for the coming conflict, the story comes alive.
They may try to nail it on the perch again but nobody will believe it is still alive.
It reminded my wife of her father, who we dub the grumpiest man alive. Home again…briefly | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
Treating patients extends their longevity, improves the quality of their lives, and reduces the number of orphans since parents remain alive.
It's passionate, and breathing, and alive, and it gets into your blood and makes your bones twist themselves up.
Life in the French chateaux continued more or less unchanged by the French Revolution, during which only about twelve hundred members of the nobility were guillotined, leaving the vast majority lying low but alive.
Which leaves you to believe the his father is alive and in corporeal form. The Tail Section » Episode 4.1 “The Beginning of the End” Afterthoughts
Right now, the zocalo is alive with protestors, vendors, tents and is an interesting place to walk around, but isn't dangerous in spite of some negative press reports. Violence in Mexico
I'’m bored" is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say "I’m bored.". Louis C.K.
We have 15,000 prims to make the world come alive (a prim is the fundamental building unit in Second Life). "Deep in your veins, I will not lie."
The only defence remaining alive at present is, therefore, I suggest, the disputed decision about qualifying privilege.
The orchestral textures vary subtly and the music is alive with incident-written and improvised.
As I say, Angell resists sentimentality, but he is alive to sentiment.
In a rural ambience, the games come alive again.
As early as 9am, the streets of East London were alive with people - clad in the black and gold colours of both teams - blowing their noisy vuvuzelas.
It was an audacious bid from the man who admitted that he was lucky to be alive after a serious cardiac condition in January. Times, Sunday Times
Mayhap you're right, mayhap there's more to be gained by keeping this whelp alive. HERE BE DRAGONS
The self-willed semicoma she fell into at the start of her shift—which lasted through every shopping item she swiped and every receipt she tore out of the till—suddenly left her and she’d felt strangely alive. The Redleys
He'll eat you alive if he ever finds out.
Under English rule the great object of the police is to take the "amok" runner alive, and have him tried like an ordinary criminal for murder; and if he can be brought to bay, as he sometimes is, they succeed in pinning him to the wall by means of such a stout two-pronged fork as I saw kept for the purpose in Malacca. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
With the oncoming of darkness, Tokyo city became alive with bright neon signs.
Where the hulk is the only person alive on earth, a hundred years after nuclear fallout, with cockroaches the only things on the planet. Mark Millar Pitches His 8-Hour Epic Trilogy of Superman Films | /Film
The police are desperate to catch this man dead or alive.
Butcher kept alive his team's hopes of squaring the three-match series with his second consecutive half-century.
By attacking Russia, he realigned the board so that France could expect greater benefits from keeping Italy alive than from continuing the alliance with Germany.
Their colleagues alive now want to declare the new epoch to raise awareness. The Sun
Every doctor who came to see me afterwards said they hadn't expected to see me alive again.
He is persuaded to stay on to keep a criminal mastermind alive long enough to spill the beans. Times, Sunday Times
Obviously the Mystery Plays were originally intended to be performed on waggons, and it is good to keep this tradition alive.
He became increasingly paranoid that one of his staff would betray him - deliver him alive to the enemy - so much so that he tested the poison on his dog.
The sounds of the flute, the santoor and the tabla will bring alive the India classical traditions like never before.
There were even some claiming that a traitor's death was too good for her, that she should be executed in the old way: flayed alive and then thrown into the sea.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. Robert H. Schuller
The killers, if they are still alive, must be brought to justice and we have no alternative but to keep our guard up against the likelihood that there are others plotting to repeat the assaults.
The steroid in the cocktail had the side effect of the shakes along with keeping his lungs alive.
The second were generation ships, which had self-contained biospheres where the crew was not in stasis pods, but alive.
The media are suddenly coming alive with faith and life issues.
The argument was kept alive by the politicians.
We tried to keep him alive but to no avail.
For an owner, trainer or jockey their dreams are alive at this time of year. Times, Sunday Times
The 50 cm plaster duck has a little cowbell on its neck, to prove that it's really not alive, as the cowbell remains silent.
The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
I am doubtful whether she is still alive.
The meeting of City fans on Monday revealed that the soul of York City is very much alive.
As the last person to see her alive, he was a material witness in the case.
The fish we caught is still alive.
There was no stronger smell than that of a man decaying while he is yet alive and breathing.
All around are rugged hills cloaked in towering pine trees and alive with hives. The Sun
Raymond Leppard conducts the English Chamber Orchestra in his own realizations, and all of the sudden the music comes fully alive.
It's too late, of course, and Affleck is forced to maintain his phony identity, fake his way through the casino hit, and hope he makes it alive to final credits.
Missing Tasmanian bushwalker Phillip Michael Dewis found after police search A MAN missing in bushland in Tasmania has found his way back to search crews alive and well. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
The history of ancient Greece and Greek mythology that I studied in high school and college all came alive for me on this trip.
Noyes asserts that the tube sometimes perforates the side of the ducks throat, and he gives Rat Munching on Ducks Bloody Ass Wounds its public debut as he notes, Rats were eating these two ducks alive. The Foie Gras Wars
The corals and the madrepores that formed 180 million years ago the limestone of the ancient sea bottom, today are the base of the thin layers that keep alive this wide wooded mantle.
In 2008, things were much worse: a confidential report written for Paradzayi Zimondi advised him that prisoners at Chikurubi Prison went for days without a meal and were occasionally supplied with food "only meant to keep a person alive" such as sadza and salted, unclean water. Crikey » Canberra Calling
The exhibition reassures us that the weaving tradition is alive and well, and developing in new and interesting fields.
Our voluntary, nonprofit organizations are alive with new initiatives.
They had so much soul, and that so contortionate, that she could not even keep her attention on them long enough to discover why they were not alive. Swan Song
Hardly anybody now alive is old enough ever to have seen and heard that boisterous old callithump known as a "dyke," which was famous enough once upon a time. In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893.
Niedermayer put the Ducks ahead 2-1 in the second period, whisking in a backhander from the high slot after Travis Moen and Scott Niedermayer fought to keep the puck alive along the right boards in the Oilers 'zone. USATODAY.com
Consider: in 1973 a team of Finnish and American scientists decapitated a dozen human fetuses, each aborted live through hysterotomy, and kept the heads alive artificially for study. A Search For Limits
Virtually inventing methods of composite mattes in film made the invisible man truly come alive and real.
Said Walter: "Didst thou find thy foregoer alive here? Wood Beyond the World
They are better off dead than alive in stinking “Gitmo.” Think Progress » Malkin On Detainee Suicides: ‘Boo-Freakin-Hoo’
Considering the extent of his injuries he's lucky to be alive.
Once the samples are in the lab, researchers have a suite of techniques at their disposal to hunt around for microbe DNA, and specifically for 16S rRNA, a gene that Colwell called "card-carrying evidence that you are alive. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
It is conflict and not unquestioning agreement that deeps freedom alive. In a free country there will always be coflicting ideas, and this is a source of strength.
if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most sinning soul alive
His move secures the 14 jobs at the site and keeps the famous A3 landmark alive.
There were two men left alive in one boat as she touched. Times, Sunday Times
This symbiotic relationship keeps both alive. Times, Sunday Times
He remembered the days when some of the old men, still alive, had been born; and, unlike him, they were now decrepit, shaken with palsy, blear-eyed, toothless of mouth, deaf of ear, or paralysed. CHAPTER XI

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