Collocations for "surviving"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "surviving" in context.
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survive
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- survive the [winter, heat, night]
- is not expected to survive the [night, next 24 hours]
- do not survive [beyond the age of five, to adulthood]
- survive to [adulthood, reproduce]
- survive to [become, see]
- do not survive beyond [five] years
- survived for [two weeks, centuries]
- survive on [rice, bread, water] (alone)
- survive without [water, food]
- survive in the [wild, forest, mountains, desert]
- survive on [$40 a week, little]
- survive by [selling, making, doing]
- survive and [thrive, prosper, reproduce, grow, flourish]
- survive the [hostile, harsh, inhospitable] conditions
- survive a [crisis, fire, war]
- survived the [crash, accident, earthquake]
- [nobody on board, only two, all the passengers] survived
- survived [unhurt, unharmed, unscathed]
- survived to tell [the tale, her grandchildren]
- survived against all [odds, expectations]
- struggle to survive
- don't know if I can survive [this week]
- will [always, probably] survive
- the [marriage, relationship] survived the trials of
'surviving' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):