How To Use Outlive In A Sentence

B.C. voters have a tradition of casting aside parties that have outlived their usefulness.
The ones elected to these jobs, so far outside the safe walls of the home base, were usually the girls who had outlived their usefulness at home or the social rejects from the hierarchy.
It also far outlived the Nazi and Fascist regimes. A Renegade History of the United States
The scrutinizing artist and his exposed sitters are all committed to the inert artifact that will outlive them: a photograph.
It has outlived the Cold War, Vietnam, 2 Iraq wars and seems to unresolvable. Matthew Yglesias » David Petraeus, Jew-Hater

By the early 1930s grand juries were generally agreed to have outlived their usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
Worse, a dean told me that our department had outlived its purpose.
Four or five times every week, Whitfield says, the Memorial Ladies and the guardsmen are the only witnesses at funerals of veterans who were homeless or outlived immediate relatives. Chron.com Chronicle
After death, our lives can be reduced to a heap of junk, yet our possessions actually outlive us.
The trinity of "liberté, egalité, fraternité" outlived those who had butchered in its name, and was deposed from the French currency only during the time of Vichy (which replaced it with the less sonorous "travail, famille, patrie"). Reactionary Prophet
They should be open to change as and when they outlive their utility.
The trees overshot their expected height and girth, and have now begun to outlive their lifespan.
She had outlived her father, who died of heart failure in 1967.
‘It would be folly to abandon a national asset unless we were sure it had outlived its usefulness,’ he says passionately.
It was a project that outlived the lead actor, and remained a work in progress for so many years that Welles eventually threatened to retitle it When Are You Going To Finish Don Quixote?
You know, I have to believe that this particular character will outlive me.
Much of North America's lighting outlived its usefulness years ago.
Like so many of our kitchen things, it has outlived it's original owner, but the stainless steel reflects us. Archive 2009-11-01
He says "America's get-up-and-go entrepreneurial culture outlived the frontier," even though he represents the kinds of big business/government combines that attacked small businessmen and ranchers on our frontier. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Mort Zuckerman Is Not Incompetent
The Minister also proposed to withdraw a few exemptions which have outlived their utility.
And when they have outlived their usefulness, they are slaughtered or sold cheaply for lab experiments.
I had long outlived such oceanic appeals. Times, Sunday Times
He has outlived many of his contemporaries but survival has come at a price. The Sun
There is Latin itself, which ultimately failed to outlive the imperium and which slowly transmuted into the vernacular Romance languages.
Can you believe that I've outlived a daughter and a son?
Buster Keaton plays a cameo role as a member of this sad entourage of icons who have outlived themselves.
Elderly women do not fare so well, since women typically outlive men in American society. Sociology
Once they have outlived their usefulness, they disappear. The Sun
Youth fades. Love droops. The leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
They have also outlived many of their contemporaries. The Sun
They have long since outlived their usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
Tadpole shrimp have outlived dinosaurs, trilobites and mammoths.
He suggests only that in time, we will become so weary of our punitive politics that the system will, out of necessity, "outgrow" or "outlive" its current fractiousness. Fight Club
With our junk food, lack of exercise, self-indulgences and self-imposed stress, many of our old folk will outlive their sons, daughters and even grandchildren.
Mine flowered a little later this year but is still going strong, having outlived the penstemon and erigeron it is planted with.
The arrangement had outlived its natural term .
About a year ago I bought his posthumous collection To Outlive Eternity, which contained several very good long stories, such as the title novella, “The Day After Doomsday” and “The Big Rain.” Archive 2009-05-01
The narrow inflation target has outlived its usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
In the latter two cases, the terms outlived the incumbents, as Quisenberry was dead from scarlet fever and Darey hit by lightning while woodcock shooting before the reservoir was half full. Stillwater
And Carinthia Jane was proclaimed by John Rose Mackrell (to his dying day the poor gentleman tried vainly to get the second syllable of his name accentuated) a young woman who would outlive twice over the husband she had. The Amazing Marriage — Volume 3
We throw away stuff not because it's outlived its usefulness or functionality but its novelty.
I'm sure Rose will outlive many of us.
If our nation is going to outlove, outthink, and outlive the self-serving culture of the day, They Call Me Dad must be the map on the road less traveled. They Call Me Dad
I should outlive him long enough to bury him.
To inherit dominant status a subordinate must outlive all those above her in the queue.
‘This mode has either outlived its usefulness or for whatever reason has not been able to deliver the kind of urban centres which most of us desire,’ he said.
The arrangement had outlived its natural term .
Seen in this light natural law appears as a group of principles that tran - scend the law of different epochs and regrouping a set of norms endowed with a certain continuity by opposi - tion to the law of a given epoch, which is transitory and changing; for the law of any epoch is the inter - preter of the preceding one, whereas natural law is the law which outlives the times. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
And in unsettled times, there's always the option of cheering oneself up by playing ‘who have I outlived?’
In the political climate of today public service broadcasting may seem a concept that has outlived its relevance.
At 75 he has outlived many actors - and acted better than lots of them. The Sun
At 75 he has outlived many actors - and acted better than lots of them. The Sun
But you're going to outlive me by many a long year. North and South
She outlived her husband by twenty years.
Perpetual foundations, he pointed out, frequently outlive their initial purpose and usefulness.
But you're going to outlive me by many a long year. North and South
Even at the hardest kind of shovelling they outlived every other kind a dozen weeks, and the fireman was a lucky malefactor who could induce a soldier to part with his. To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days
Moreover, as his case shows, the longer a pontificate lasts, the greater the likelihood that a name chosen in good faith will outlive its aptness.
It appears that the relief may have outlived its usefulness in terms of creating jobs, given present economic circumstances.
In order to enhance his credibility Fedora was allowed to expose John Vassall who by then had outlived his usefulness.
The defences have outlived their usefulness - quite literally. Times, Sunday Times
But now that horses have quite obviously outlived their usefulness, we have failed to let them go. Times, Sunday Times
The tragedy of Mr Gorbachev's personal life was to outlive his beloved wife, Raisa.
He's outlived his parents, who had heart conditions.
Certainly the French father might have followed the custom of his class and country, and coerced his young daughter into the acceptance of any husband he might have chosen for her; but he did not feel disposed to use harsh measures with his only and idolized child; he rather preferred to exercise patience and forbearance toward her, until she should have outlived what he called her childish caprices. The Lost Lady of Lone
The trees overshot their expected height and girth, and have now begun to outlive their lifespan.
But now that horses have quite obviously outlived their usefulness, we have failed to let them go. Times, Sunday Times
But you're going to outlive me by many a long year. North and South
The organization had outlived its usefulness. Christianity Today
His music is still swinging — itself no longer an asset by 1971 — but Prima himself, dressed in a blue bell-bottom suit and sporting a Beatle haircut, seems like a man who has outlived his moment. Both Leading Man and Comic Relief
It's difficult for my parents to think they might outlive their son.
His own work and those of his pupils and masters singly occupy his mind; he is the bondslave, the zealot of his school; he dreams of an advance in art like what there is in science; he thinks of past things as radically dead; he thinks a form can be outlived: a strange immersion in his own history; a strange forgetfulness of the history of the race! Memories and Portraits
Too often, however, companies remained in existence when they had outlived their artistic purpose.
Could institutional religion have outlived its usefulness?
And even an org could be regenerated if one had 'outlived' its usefulness or gotten too bad a name for itself.) Research Shows E-Voting Favored Bush, but Disputes Irregularity Argument
Her dependence on me has long outlived mine on her. Times, Sunday Times
This visible security was intended to dissuade attacks and reassure visitors, but it has long outlived its usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
Elderly women do not fare so well, since women typically outlive men in American society. Sociology
The demographics of participants in this study reflect current population demographics in which women outlive their husbands and then live alone.
What is it like to have outlived so many of one's contemporaries? The Times Literary Supplement
Such contradictions are symptomatic of an epoch at the end of its life. It has outlived its usefulness.
Yet, it is necessary to outlive the inhuman experience of this attempt at genocide with the collaboration and connivance of the state and come to grips with its implications for the future of the Republic.
When breeding sows outlived their purpose they were sent to slaughter.
Too much debate on the Left is about defending ossified thought patterns and structures which have actually outlived their usefulness.
We cannot sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programmes that have outlived their usefulness, or exist solely because of the power of a politician, lobbyist or interest group.
We cannot sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programmes that have outlived their usefulness, or exist solely because of the power of a politician, lobbyist or interest group.
They have long since outlived their usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
Youth fades. Love droops. The leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
By the early 1930s grand juries were generally agreed to have outlived their usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
Women outlive men just about everywhere in the world, but in Russia, it's by 14 years.
Well, at least he did not outlive his “nemesis”, whom he had managed outsit in the House, Margaret Thatcher. So what are we to make of Edward Heath?
The defences have outlived their usefulness - quite literally. Times, Sunday Times
I had long outlived such oceanic appeals. Times, Sunday Times
The narrow inflation target has outlived its usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
If the projections were accurate, almost all of those policies should have "matured," with the insured dead, by the end of 2009, but instead the insured had outlived the estimate in 283 of the 297 policies. Odds Skew Against Investors in Bets on Strangers' Lives
They have also outlived many of their contemporaries. The Sun
A portion of military specialists have even conceived an opinion that the Ground Forces have outlived their usefulness and will only play the role of auxiliary troops in future wars.
What is certain is, that the old Phoenician name of Hispalis outlived the Roman name of Familiar Spanish Travels
If he outlived Domitian it was not for long, as Pliny in the letters quoted above (the earlier written about A.D. 100) does not speak of Quintilian as alive. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
Only one of her four other children outlived her.
Yet, it is necessary to outlive the inhuman experience of this attempt at genocide with the collaboration and connivance of the state and come to grips with its implications for the future of the Republic.
For instance, most birds considerably outlive mammals of comparable size.
But the company has since shut the site down, according to a Lilly spokesman, who says the site "outlived its goals. Drug Makers Replace Reps With Digital Tools
An "ideal" BMI sufferer putting on a few pounds of muscle by doing some judicious exercise might well stave off death for a bit longer; simply gorging on cakes probably won't help. recent calls for a BMI tax are now further exposed as foolishness, and the "fat people" that he rashly proposes to attack with a stick (any time, Coren - better make it a big stick*) have the consolation of knowing that they'll probably outlive him. The Register
With our junk food, lack of exercise, self-indulgences and self-imposed stress, many of our old folk will outlive their sons, daughters and even grandchildren.
How viable is the latter without a transformation to remove the economic apartheid that has outlived the political?
Dudley Venner had a kind of superstition, too, that, if Elsie could only outlive three septenaries, twenty-one years, so that, according to the prevalent idea, her whole frame would have been thrice made over, counting from her birth, she would revert to the natural standard of health of mind and feelings from which she had been so long perverted. Elsie Venner
The value of de Kooning's paintings was also really helped by the fact that he "outlived" most of his competitors. Age and Entrepreneurship
This move should also help its subsidiary, Alliance Air, now burdened and handicapped by an aging fleet that has almost outlived its life span.
In order to enhance his credibility Fedora was allowed to expose John Vassall who by then had outlived his usefulness.
So many people outlive their friends and their contemporaneous family.
The Founders were more likely than not acknowledging that, based on their recent experience, governments eventually outlive their relevance to the needs of the people and are destained to be replaced. "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader
The narrow inflation target has outlived its usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
There's nothing we can do but see how many outlive summer.
He easily outlived all his more famous contemporaries, and became in a sense their living witness as well as their official obituarist. A Nice Bloody Fool
SYDNEY, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A species of giant ancient turtle outlived most of the outsized, extinct animals known as megafauna -- until humans came along, Australian researchers say. Latest News - UPI.com
Youth fades. Love droops. The leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
And the truth is that micro-organisms can't be obliterated - they were here first and they will surely outlive us.
The sudden closing of Redirack, a manufacturer in light steel, last Saturday, without any warning to their employees is a clear indication that indeed unions have not outlived their usefulness. The Citizenship of Labour
This is true; but such poems have outlived their original purposes and now survive as aesthetic entities.
Those women who slob around in shapeless tracksuits and trainers, looking so grotesque that you can't believe they have the nerve to leave the house, are probably going to outlive us all.
This move should also help its subsidiary, Alliance Air, now burdened and handicapped by an aging fleet that has almost outlived its life span.
They may outlive their friends who can give insights into their achievements and character.
The old pool had outlived its heyday and to fill it in and create something new has to be the best way forward for this important part of Scarborough's seafront.
These coins have long outlived their usefulness and simply weigh down our pockets and purses. Times, Sunday Times
She outlived her husband by many years
Alas, Busteed failed to persuade the jury that his client's story was quite as true as it was interesting, and the fame of The Pickwick Papers has in fact outlived that of the roving and unhallowed lust of Mrs. Beardsley.
Her dependence on me has long outlived mine on her. Times, Sunday Times
Disposed to talk, she lingered as long as possible, but Harvey Munden had no leanings to this kind of colloquy; when the girl took herself off, he drew a breath of satisfaction, and smiled the smile of an intellectual man who has outlived youthful follies. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
We are beginning to think that this factory has outlived its usefulness as our main supplier.
Youth fades. Love droops. The leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
What is it like to have outlived so many of one's contemporaries? The Times Literary Supplement
‘He was born before me and the way he's going he'll probably outlive me,’ she said.
We throw away stuff not because it's outlived its usefulness or functionality but its novelty.
There are only two prison sentences which I can think of where the controversy has outlived the prison term to such a grand scale.
There have been more Blakey tributes simply because so many of his sidemen including Wynton and Branford Marsalis are still comparatively young; Roach, by contrast, outlived most of his colleagues. The Jazz Scene: Rhythm Kings and the Chairman of the Board
British collusion in such destruction is a scandal that will outlive any passing conflict.
The dominie was a rare visitor at the club after that, though he outlived poor Mr. Dickie by many years. Auld Licht Idylls
The trees overshot their expected height and girth, and have now begun to outlive their lifespan.
Once they have outlived their usefulness, they disappear. The Sun
In fact, the Queen Mother outlived most of her nephews and nieces as well.
They repay a second look, and many looks thereafter, as one of the characteristics of fine art is a capacity to delight that outlives its period.
This visible security was intended to dissuade attacks and reassure visitors, but it has long outlived its usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
They have also outlived many of their contemporaries. The Sun
Sadly, Rameau outlived his patroness by only a few months.
Those who are weakly or who complain of ill health , oft outlive the more robust.
Can you imagine how it feels when a mother outlives her child?
We have outlived all our brothers and sisters and their wives and husbands.
But as Regency exuberance yielded to Victorian gentility, his style did not move with public taste, and he began to outlive his popularity.
She outlived her husband by twenty years.
They have long since outlived their usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
In these beliefs zoolatry, litholatry and all the other nature worships outlived the savagery that had created them. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
I said, and repeated the surprising scientific finding that physician Harry Lodge, my co-moderator, would never say in a public forum: "A fat guy who smokes a pack a day and exercises will outlive a thin, non-smoker who is sedentary. Promote yourself to chief executive officer for good health
The defences have outlived their usefulness - quite literally. Times, Sunday Times
There was talk of deporting her but somehow I suspect she'll outlive us all.
Jane was proclaimed by John Rose Mackrell (to his dying day the poor gentleman tried vainly to get the second syllable of his name accentuated) a young woman who would outlive twice over the husband she had. The Amazing Marriage — Complete
These coins have long outlived their usefulness and simply weigh down our pockets and purses. Times, Sunday Times
The dicynodonts as a whole lasted some 50 million years, and the only group of therapsids to outlive them were the cynodonts, which were the direct ancestors of the mammals.
This voice outlives the rest at every strophe, and contrives to add a supplemental antiphonic phrase that recalls in turn the favourite melodies of the opera. Vittoria — Volume 4
I'm sure Rose will outlive many of us.
These coins have long outlived their usefulness and simply weigh down our pockets and purses. Times, Sunday Times
He has outlived many of his contemporaries but survival has come at a price. The Sun
Shockingly, Ripley's return to LV-426 comes with a plethora of highly trained marines by her side — yet it's this meagerly trained warehouse worker that manages to outlive the rest and take out Aliens like the best. Zoe Saldana’s ‘Avatar’ Role Is Simply The Latest Of James Cameron’s Powerful Leading Ladies » MTV Movies Blog
At 75 he has outlived many actors - and acted better than lots of them. The Sun
Her dependence on me has long outlived mine on her. Times, Sunday Times
Some of the country's television broadcasting satellites had outlived their intended period of service.
Protections for bocaccio, yelloweye and canary rockfish, a slow-growing rockfish that can outlive many humans were pushed into oblivion due to overfishing in the 1970s and 1980s. The Seattle Times
The organization had outlived its usefulness. Christianity Today
One of our daughters suffered like this and found comfort in a couple of tortoises as pets whom we could promise would outlive her. The Sun
I have long outbidden folly with folly, pride with pride, scorn with scorn, insolence with insolence, and have outlived many vanities with many more. Bleak House
If Upward is not better known than perhaps he ought to be, it is probably because he helped instill the Communist faith in his more notorious friends, and then not only outlived them and their various apostasies but continued to practice a version of that faith himself. The Captive Mind
At Carthage, the pirate kingdom of the Vandals outlived imperial Rome by several decades.
Once they have outlived their usefulness, they disappear. The Sun
They mutually compassionated his unhappy situation in domestic life, and Cecilia innocently expressed her concern at the dislike Lady Margaret seemed to have taken to her; a dislike which Mr Harrel naturally enough imputed to her youth and beauty, yet without suspecting any cause more cogent than a general jealousy of attractions of which she had herself so long outlived the possession. Cecilia
Youth fades. Love droops. The leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Obviously neither broder or sister have no concept of “math” … AND both have outlived their usefulness … Bye .. Think Progress » Poll Shows Palin’s Unfavorability Ratings At All-Time High As Broder Extols Her ‘Populist’ Appeal
This reflects the tendency for women to outlive their husbands.
Brian Knapp has a good roundup of critiques of protest rallies and concludes that they have outlived their usefulness. Protests Don’t Work | Heretical Ideas Magazine
Guided by a sage named Noot, one who from the beginning had been appointed to her service and that of another -- thou, O Holly, wast that man -- she found the essence in which to bathe is to outlive Generations, Faiths, and Ayesha, the Return of She
Because he chooses words carefully, I was not totally surprised when he suggested that "the term amateur may have outlived its usefulness. Inside Higher Ed
Given an adequate supply of water, air and light, a properly maintained bonsai should outlive a full-size tree of the same species.
The first Gnosticism was a complex phenomenon, so complex that some scholars have suggested the term has outlived its usefulness.
British collusion in such destruction is a scandal that will outlive any passing conflict.
She explained that a bonsai tree could easily outlive its owner if properly cared for.
He has outlived many of his contemporaries but survival has come at a price. The Sun
What is it like to have outlived so many of one's contemporaries? The Times Literary Supplement
She outlived her son by many years.
The organization had outlived its usefulness. Christianity Today
We cannot sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programmes that have outlived their usefulness, or exist solely because of the power of a politician, lobbyist or interest group.
Elderly women do not fare so well, since women typically outlive men in American society. Sociology
But now that horses have quite obviously outlived their usefulness, we have failed to let them go. Times, Sunday Times
The _rosaria_ outlived the suppression of pagan superstitions, and by and by assumed its Christian form in the feast of Pentecost, which falls in the month of May. Pagan and Christian Rome
This visible security was intended to dissuade attacks and reassure visitors, but it has long outlived its usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
And since that uneasy juxtaposition appears to have outlived the year 2000, the question of when the century ended is, from a conceptual standpoint, no more straightforward than that of when it began.
I had long outlived such oceanic appeals. Times, Sunday Times
By the early 1930s grand juries were generally agreed to have outlived their usefulness. Times, Sunday Times
Your dad has passed away last year, and I've outlived most of my relatives.
Actually there was a body of popular superstitions and observances which came from a deeper and older source than Druidism, and was destined to long outlive it.
The dominie was a rare visitor at the club after that, though he outlived poor Auld Licht Idyls
Having outlived her husband, she stayed in the new city of Amarna where she is shown in bas reliefs sharing the life of Akhenaton and Nefertiti. Exhibit of Egyptian Queens

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